BCC 5.8.3

[Rick Lipkin]

To All

As a former 5.82 BCC user .. I have ( generally ) found it to be compatable with any ( legacy ) lib's compiled with 5.5 .. However, is it better, faster, safer ... not that I can tell.

To extract just the compiler, \lib,\include, \bin folders from Borland\Codegear .. you have to install the whole IDE which has several 'pre-requisits' .. .net framework sdk, .. about 5 'useless' componants that support the IDE ..

Once you get the 'hoss' installed .. you have to just copy out the 3 folders I mentioned and use the command line parameters just like in 5.5 .. and there is a bunch of useless 'trash' in the \include folder you will never need.

I make no judgements here .. I have done all of the above and ( personally ) .. I just don't think the 'juice is worth the squeeze'

Rick Lipkin

[MOISES]

Hi,

In my opinion, it is worth triying it. As we move from FW 2.0 or from Windows 95, should be always on 5.5?.

The important issue is see what are real changes and advantages of the new version.