Why was support for the older Delphi/C++Builder version X dropped?
We understand that many users continue to use older IDE versions, for various reasons. For those users, we continue to make available older versions of GExperts supporting IDEs all of the way back to Delphi 2, even if our current development no longer officially supports those older IDE versions. The reason for not supporting older IDEs is not a purely technical one, since it is technically possible for us to continue to support all of the way back to at least Delphi 2 but only with a messy and difficult to maintain code-base. Instead, the reasons are more practical ones: • We have limited development and testing resources available to us and we can not spread those too thin. • Many of the interesting IDE Open Tools interfaces are only available in more recent IDEs • Over time, it becomes harder to find Open Tools developers who know how to code for and can test their code in older IDEs. • Supporting older IDEs makes it harder to to take advantage of new IDE and RTL/VCL features. • Sup
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