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WILL
29-09-2005, 02:41 AM
Well I didn\'t actually get to hear the live broadcast, but I got to hang out and ask a few questions durring the live chat.\r\n\r\nHere is the entire set of questions asked(well mostly ;)):\r\n
jkaster inserts the following link: http://blogs.borland.com/dcc/archive/2005/09/27/21361.aspx\r\njkaster: Danny\'s blog on the Delphi roadmap\r\naohlsson: DaveN: "Who is talking now?" - Michael Swindell\r\ndavidi: erwien: "will ECO basic be explained here? What will be in it, etc." - Michael is explaining ECO now. There are also lots of articles and BDNtv episodes about ECO. John mentioned that more ECO information and tutorials will appear on BDN in the coming weeks.\r\ndavidi: SteveA: "Will you have the full doco for ECO state machine and other new features at or before release date?" - John mentioned that more ECO examples and tutorials (BDNtv) will appear in the next two weeks.\r\ndavidi: JoeH: "How round trip will Together in DeXter be for code implementation generation/refactoring ?" - Michael states that DeXter will have Together "live source" technology for all Delphi applications. Full round trip. Can develop in the model, can develop in code.\r\naohlsson: Troy\'s phone is now broken!\r\ndavidi: RobJLove: "C# Support in Together?" - Michael states that DeXter Together technology will support Delphi Win32, Delphi .NET and C# languages in this version. C++ support for Together will be added in the future. DeXter Together also supports code audits and metrics, document generation, pattern support, and refactoring.\r\naohlsson: His phone was right next to his microphone cable. Sorry about that.\r\naohlsson: The audio stream will be posted within the next couple of days.\r\ndavidi: JoeH: "Will DeXter be faster than D2005 ? (without diabling features like Together)" - Michael is talking about the performance and quality efforts that the team is putting in to DeXter. The team is looking at architectural issues, memory usage, etc. DeXter has a new memory manager that is improving the performance, stability, and memory footprint. There are specific team members dedicated to quality/performance issues.\r\ndavidi: outchy: "any plan to optimize the IDE for low computers ?" - Michael is talking about tuning DeXter.\r\ndavidi: jozzb: "what VCL improvements (besides porting) are in the pipeline?" - Michael is talking about VCL compatibility and support for Win32, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, .NET Compact Framework, and into Windows Vista.\r\naohlsson: outchy: "will ECO be shipped with personnal and professionnal versions of Dexter ?" - Michael stated that ECO will be in multiple SKUs, not which ones.\r\naohlsson: LauchlanM: "is the new together stuff for all SKUs?" - We\'re not providing exact SKU information at this time.\r\njkaster: hazard: "Will C++ personality in D2006 support inlining?" - darren: That should be the same as what C++Builder 6 supported\r\njkaster: JoeH: "will Together in DeXter allow sequence diagram auto-generation based on implementation code ?" - mike: We are not going to support codegen from sequence diagrams at this time\r\naohlsson: Darren\'s full name is "Darren Kosinski"\r\njkaster: davidi: "will C++ CLR (managed C++) be placed on the roadmap some day?" - michael: We\'d like to get that on the roadmap, and we\'re researching that internally.\r\njkaster: davidi: "Will there ever be a Unicode version of VCL Win32?" - Michael: Our goal is that all of the runtime and design-time pieces of Delphi need to be unicode. It\'s going to be a multi-release, multi-year effort for complete Unicode support.\r\njkaster: EricSasse: "Are we going to have Designer Guidelines for VCL Win32?" - Michael: Yes\r\njkaster: chewy: "Will there be wizards/experts for Windows Services development in C# or Delphi.NET?" - Michael: I\'m not sure, weA'll have to look at that.\r\njkaster: x64-lover: "Can you talk a little about operator overloading in Win32 Delphi? Will it be applicable to classes, records or both? Any important limitations to be aware of?" - Michael: let\'s throw that one to Danny to answer\r\njkaster: chuckm: "will Together have an API for writing experts to generate custom code, not just class declaration but actually implementation as well" - Michael: We don\'t have that as a feature in this release, but we\'ll add it to the list.\r\njkaster: pachecoes: "ECO for VCL.NET?" - Michael: For DeXter, we don\'t have this feature, but we have it for Highlander.\r\njkaster inserts the following link: http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,33276,00.html\r\njkaster: Using VCL.NET with ECO - by David Clegg\r\njkaster: Serge_D: "how exactly 64bit compile is addressed in DeXter?" - please rephrase. I don\'t understand.\r\njkaster: Serge_D: "what are plans for VCL being .Net compatible? regular .Net classes to see and understand core VCL classes - Control, Collection, etc" - Michael: Right now, we\'re not going to be doing a lot more interoperability than what is already there.\r\naohlsson: DeXter\'s in the lab as we speak...\r\njkaster: outchy: "/ask in the last versions, Delphi started integrating opensource codes, any roadmap about that ?" - Michael: It\'s not part of our strategy to look for OS projects to put in the product. It\'s when we\'re looking for the best solution.\r\naohlsson: It\'s 6:50pm PDT and 9:50pm on the East Coast.\r\njkaster: LauchlanM: "what about ECO for VCL on native Win32? <g>" - Michael: ECO is really focused on business or Enterprise applications in many ways, and those are customers who are moving to a managed environment like .NET\r\njkaster: JoeH: "will ASP.Net2 \'beta\' compatibility be available before Highlander release ?" - Michael: We do intend to be more open about technology previews, especially with our 2.0 support. I would plan on seeing something before Highlander.\r\njkaster: JoeH: "will ECO2 3rd party mappers work in ECO3 ? (I use NexusDB with ECO)" - Michael: the plan is for the third party providers and mappers to be available when we release. Ask your third party provider about this.\r\njkaster: x64-lover: "Any chance of a profiler (even a basic one) being included with Delphi in the future?" - Michael: There\'s always a possibility. That\'s deifnitely one we always look at each release.\r\ndavidi: __WILL__: "Will we see the return of CLX?" - This has already been answered by Michael. We will continue to work the the Kylix Community Project - freeclx.sourceforge.net.\r\njkaster: Serge_D: "any plans to make ECO available for MS VS200x?" - Michael: That\'s an interesting question. It\'s something we definitely could do, and we\'re looking into. It\'s not on our roadmap currently.\r\njkaster: jozzb: "remote debugging available in dexter?" - Michael: Yes, we\'re bringing that back for C++, Delphi, basically all the personalities\r\ndavidi: chuckm: "will Borland relent and finally announce whether they\'re going to support 64-bit native app,...oh wait nevermind. <g>" - Michael said that 64-bit native compilers are on the roadmap in the 2007/2008 timeframe.\r\naohlsson: venks: " what is the latest on SA .Is it 20 % or 30 % ?" - I *think* it\'s 30%, but it could be regional, so please check with your local office.\r\ndavidi: outchy: "According to the roadmap, Won\'t Delphi be a module of VS ?" - On the roadmap, there is no mention of Delphi as a module for Visual Studio.\r\ndavidi: Serge_D: "it is announced that 64bit compile for .Net will be in DeXter. What exactly is planned for this release other then probably compile using dccil, like it was with Compact Framework" - Michael mentioned that DeXter compiler (delphi.NET and C#) will support 64bit .NET 1.1, and Highlander compiler will support 64bit .NET 2.0\r\naohlsson: JoeH: "what are the SKU diff\'s in SKU\'s for DeXter and Highlander ?" - We\'re not quite ready to discuss what\'s in what SKUs at this time.\r\ndavidi: C++ gets history lists and StarTeam integration too :)\r\njkaster: jozzb: "will delphi become integrated into eclipse?" - Michael: no plans on our roadmap\r\njkaster: EricSasse: "What about a code formatter? :)" - Michael; that is something we\'re very interested in\r\njkaster: cleggy: "any plans to add full support for the VB.NET personality in a future version?" - Michael: Not currently\r\njkaster: RobertD: "StarTeam Std is included with Delphi--any chance of a CaliberRM server?" - Michael: There\'s a chance for that. We currently don\'t have plans but would like to get that worked out.\r\ndavidi: CaliberRM integration is in DeXter\r\njkaster: __WILL__: "Will we be seeing Delphi for the Mac(considering the Intel/Apple issue)?" - Michael: Boy, I\'d love to do something like that. Right now weA're focused on the Windows platforms.\r\ndavidi: Michael has a MacMini !\r\njkaster: hazard: "Any chance to include an localization tool with easy language edititing outside an IDE (like text files)?" - Michael: We do have ITM, which can be provided to a localization service. We really haven\'t productized them so that everybody knows about them.\r\njkaster: RobJLove: "Roadmap published on BDN?" - Michael: yes\r\njkaster: erwien: "will Highlander supports .Net 1.1 or only .Net 2.0?" - Michael: Probably only .NET 2.0. DeXter will support 1.1.\r\njkaster: chewy: "How about Delphi for Java?" - Michael: That again! Wow! That would be interesting.\r\njkaster: venks: "Will there be a reporting tool supporting both win32 &amp; .net in Dexter?" - Michael: Rave reports will support both.\r\njkaster: cleggy: "is there going to be an update to the Easter Egg game in the About Box. I\'ve mastered that level already :-)" - Michael: That youA'll have to wait and see. Buy DeXter and pull up the Easter Egg to find out!\r\ndavidi: Attend DevCon in SF to learn all about DeXter and meet the team\r\ndavidi: Nov 8-10\r\ndavidi: San Francisco Hilton\r\ndavidi: 3:22am here in London :)\r\ndavidi: Cheers from London\r\njkaster: chewy: "jkaster coming to Singapore? :)" - probably mid Nov\r\njkaster: DaveN: "Will there be a meet TeamB session? ;-)" - Depends on how much TeamB shows up!\r\njkaster: yes chewy. DeXter launch\r\njkaster: ok, everybody time to leave the chat! Thanks for coming

Anonymous
29-09-2005, 03:33 PM
Good thing Delphi project continues :)