Archive for April, 2004

Spring 2004 Tour

First, an apology: This post really belongs in my personal blog instead of the Delphi Compiler Core. Seeing as how I haven’t had time to finish setting up the personal blog, I’m requisitioning this space.
The Road Trip

Tokyo Friday, April 23
Advisor, Customer visit to discuss Delphi […]

Posted by Danny Thorpe archive on April 21st, 2004 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

Cool! PInvoke.net

Adam Nathan has set up a wiki site at PInvoke.net to collect and provide info on how to set up PInvoke declarations to access Win32 API functions. (Yes, it’s in C# syntax but we won’t hold that against them. The type tricks and marshall attributes required to get things to work apply to […]

Posted by Danny Thorpe archive on April 20th, 2004 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

How to Persuade Borland to Do Anything

How can Borland customers and partners persuade Borland to invest more resources into certain technologies or products?
Simple: Show us the money. We generally don’t do art for art’s sake.
The hardest part of deciding which technologies or product features to pursue and which to pass over is figuring out the business justification […]

Posted by Danny Thorpe archive on April 14th, 2004 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

Verdict on Win32 Attributes: Not This Year

The results are in: the simplified attribute implementation I proposed for Delphi Win32 a few weeks ago won’t cut the mustard. The minimum functionality acceptible to those who want attributes the most is considerably greater than what we have resources to attempt in the current product cycle. Therefore, I am removing the […]

Posted by Danny Thorpe archive on April 11th, 2004 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

Technology Goals for 2004

Here’s the synopsis of compiler work on the boards for calendar year 2004:

Win32 compiler enhancements, including codegen improvements and language enhancements to improve parity with the .NET side of the house.

IL compiler enhancements to broaden the .NET push started with Delphi 8 for .NET. This will include more language enhancements, codegen improvements, and reorganized […]

Posted by Danny Thorpe archive on April 8th, 2004 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

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