Back from Delphi Developer Days (Kudos to Marco and Cary) and after cleaning up the mess in my inbox I would like to share some thought I had during one of the sessions named “Delphi: Today and Tomorrow”.
Some of the attendants mentioned they were still working with older Delphi versions and even if the newer versions were laying around they refused to make the step migrating their applications to the current Delphi XE. One argument from a fellow developer working still with Delphi 2007 actually alerted myself as he rated the step from Delphi 2007 to Delphi 2009 a very big one regarding the Unicode migration, but the step from Delphi 2010 to Delphi XE seems rather small, which makes himself unsure wether to make the migration to Delphi XE now or wait for the next version to come.
Honestly, I don’t get that. There already is a large step from Delphi 2007 to Delphi XE. Why making it even larger? What about “divide and conquer”? Do you really expect the migration to XE2 being easier than that to XE? Continue reading “On Upgrading Delphi”
