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Re: Delphi 2009 Beta: Installation speed much, much improved!

omonien — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:15:11 -0000

Even for commonly called "free" software there are a lot of licensing
issues many users may not really be expecting/aware of. I wonder how
many commercial products are basically illegally using GPL'ed
libraries/components ...

Gruesse / Regards,
Olaf Monien
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Re: Delphi 2009 Beta: Installation speed much, much improved!

omonien — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:10:15 -0000

Well, the disclaimer for us Beta testers explicitly mentions benchmarks
- which is understandable. A beta is a beta and speed may vary.

I remember that the actual Delphi EULA mentions benchmarks as well, but
in that case we would have to discuss what is a benchmark, and what is
an observation. For the setup I would pretty much argue that the setup
run time would be more an observation ;-)

Regards,
Olaf Monien
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Re: Delphi 2009 Beta: Installation speed much, much improved!

jimmckeeth — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:12:50 -0000

That is pretty much boiler plate licensing stuff. I don't remember when Borland dropped the no-nonsense license / book license and switched to this boiler plate annoying license. They must have hired a lawyer who went crazy.

Re: Delphi 2009 Beta: Installation speed much, much improved!

Donald Shimoda — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:05:29 -0000

You say:

For beta versions we are not allowed to post benchmark results

AFAIK, according to the license you cannot publish any benchmark,neither non beta products.

That policy change with embarcadero? I doubt it.

Re: Delphi 2009 Beta: Installation speed much, much improved!

omonien — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:20:08 -0000

Hi Lars, thanks for your comment. I should have mentioned, that I'm using Win2003 for the tests.

Re: Delphi 2009 Beta: Installation speed much, much improved!

Lars Fosdal — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:23:26 -0000

Under what OS did you install?
If Vista, did you try with the registry tweaks?

href="http://tools.fosdal.com/2008/08/tip-improving-delphi-install.html">http://tools.fosdal.com/2008/08/tip-improving-delphi-install.html