Support List wrote:

> Also, due to the recent difficulties with Delphi 6 having troubles with my
> code, I am contemplating dropping support for these 4 versions of Delphi:
>
> CPPB 5& 6
> Delphi 5& 6
>
> I would like a sense of how much this will be a problem for anyone.
> Getting these working again could require a considerably amount of my time
> that I would prefer to focus on other things.

My own situation is that I can't see any point in paying for a newer version of
'Builder' when I have a perfectly stable development platform in Eclipse which
handles 95% of my development needs. Most of my customer base is now web based
clients, but the interface to the 'hardware' such as automated announcements,
and legacy ticket printer hardware is still provided by the windows apps.

Much of the server hardware has moved over to Linux, and the scalability that
provides for Apache/PHP/Firebird, just leaving what I call the 'workstations'
tied to windows. Until recently these have been stably running on the 2003
package of code, and with W2k kept on the machine ( so the hardware continues to
run ;) ) but while I've got a couple of sites were we have moved up to FB2.5
without a problem, later ones are now throwing very occasional crashes often
enough to force a switch back to FB2.1 which is a nightmare in itself :(

A couple of sites are still running FB1.5 with an even more complex IBO package
which has not even been ported to the web base, but which I now need to address
some issues on, hence my current thought about moving up versions wise.

My initial thought is that personally perhaps all I need to do is move to IBO4.8
and work from that? Longer term I need to rework all of the hardware, but that
is a much more complex job and one which I HAD started to address with Kylix
until that was killed off. Switching over the linux on the my workstation
hardware is actually looking more practical that replacing a lot of hardware
that even windows XP has some problems with. There is nothing wrong with the
hardware, and I have spares on the shelf to maintain it for probably another 20
years ... just pigging windows :) So it looks like I am better off looking into
Lazarus and seeing what I can do with that. I don't 'need' Pascal I'm probably
one of the few people who never moved over to it, staying with C++ ...

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