The next version of Delphi will be called Delphi XE... and there is a second preview video available online, focused on third party tools.
The next version of Delphi will be called Delphi XE... and there is a second preview video available online, focused on third party tools. As per the video announcement (at http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/40773) after the first preview focused on Subversion integration, this second preview covers some of the third party tools that will be part of Delphi XE:
FinalBuilder, used to manage the build process
The ability to invoke IDE operations (like audits, metrics, code formatting) from the command line, and so invoke them from external tools like FinalBuilder
The integrated version of profiling tool AQTime
The logging support provided by CodeSite, a nice tool written by Ray Konopka.
Here is the video, in the version you can find on YouTube:
Finally, I wanted to point out that there has been some clarification to the roadmap (http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/delphi_roadmap_aug2010.html) regarding 64-bit support offered by Allen Bauer in the Embarcadero forum and reported by Jeroen Pluimers: Pulsar (the version of Delphi following XE) should have a fully capable and integrated Win64 bit compiler, with full RTL and VCL support. This is expected "sometime in 2011". Notice though, that this is rephrasing some newsgroups posts, so it lacks any formal backing.
Even though I already use the added products to XE with
my current D2007, it is nice to know that I would not
have to pay for the updates to those products again with
this upgrade. That should save me around $300-$400. The
inline integration of QA in the code editor was a very
nice feature. That one I could use. And the
presentation from the presenters were done nicely this
time. I guess I will back off on commenting until I see
the other videos.
At this moment we are using almost all of the "new"
things in XE (Finalbuilder, AQTime/Testcomplete,
logging). In Delphi 2007!
I really don't see the point in upgrading to XE when I
get all the tools I already own (the complete
versions!). Okay, maybe it's nice for those people who
otherwise never would buy any of these external tools,
but to me, XE just look the same as Delphi 2010, only
with an awful load of tools.....
As far as I can see, I would never buy XE.
