http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2008/02/13/38858 David Intersimone (David I) CodeGear blog about programming, languages, history, and more. Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:20:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.3-2.2.1 http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2008/02/13/38858#comment-9169 Sip from the Firehose » Blog Archive » Ruby scalability? Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:50:14 +0000 http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2008/02/13/38858#comment-9169 [...] think my best (and simplest answer) is to show a picture (below) taken during my afternoon hotel room meeting with Yukihiro Matsumoto (’Matz’) at the Developer Summit with Ruby running on an Apple [...] […] think my best (and simplest answer) is to show a picture (below) taken during my afternoon hotel room meeting with Yukihiro Matsumoto (’Matz’) at the Developer Summit with Ruby running on an Apple […]

]]> http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2008/02/13/38858#comment-8908 Pavel S Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:00:09 +0000 http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2008/02/13/38858#comment-8908 > This decision is IMO very unfortunate and wrong. I can surely convert my code replacing all Strings by AnsiStrings and fix some remaining issues but how can I be expected to convert and test all toolboxes I use whose inner workings I do not understand sufficiently (nor do I care to), many of them being open-source or from companies gone bust since long ??? But let me ask another question : RAD Studio 2007 being probably the last RAD Studio I will ever use, will Codegear : 1. continue to maintain the 2007 version in the future, delivering updates to fix bugs (at least) (even as a paid service) ? 2. continue to sell the 2007 version (there can be new people in developer teams) ? I sincerely hope you have a positive answer to both questions and I would like to hear it. Otherwise, I would say you do not know what you are doing. >
This decision is IMO very unfortunate and wrong.
I can surely convert my code replacing all Strings by AnsiStrings and fix some remaining issues but how can I be expected to convert and test all toolboxes I use whose inner workings I do not understand sufficiently (nor do I care to), many of them being open-source or from companies gone bust since long ???
But let me ask another question :
RAD Studio 2007 being probably the last RAD Studio I will ever use, will Codegear :
1. continue to maintain the 2007 version in the future, delivering updates to fix bugs (at least) (even as a paid service) ?
2. continue to sell the 2007 version (there can be new people in developer teams) ?
I sincerely hope you have a positive answer to both questions and I would like to hear it. Otherwise, I would say you do not know what you are doing.

]]> http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2008/02/13/38858#comment-8902 Lars S Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:32:54 +0000 http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/2008/02/13/38858#comment-8902 Hi Could you please also have someby provide some info about the DB issues involved with the switch to Unicode. I am thinking about things like TStringField, TWideStringField etc. Or will this stuff "just work"? Right now there is a lot of TStringFields "sitting on top" of actual database fields that are not Unicode. Hi
Could you please also have someby provide some info about the DB issues involved with the switch to Unicode. I am thinking about things like TStringField, TWideStringField etc. Or will this stuff "just work"? Right now there is a lot of TStringFields "sitting on top" of actual database fields that are not Unicode.

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