I'm really glad about the existence of the IDEFixPack.

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I'm really glad about the existence of the IDEFixPack.

But why isn't this already included in Delphi after all these years?
I'm really curious to know why this doesn't happen.

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  1. Dorin DuminicaSeptember 16, 2014 at 2:37 AM

    from what I know IDEFixPack patches Delphi in memory at runtime, the leader(s) at emb put more value on the monkey than on productivity and stability, but that's just my 2 cents...

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  2. Daniela OsterhagenSeptember 16, 2014 at 4:17 AM

    The old problem of finite resources and virtually infinite tasks. Somebody has to set priorities and the powers that be decided other things are more important. I have been there and done that myself, and it annoyed the hell out of me. I even for some time spent some of my off work time to fix bugs in our company's code. Stopped that when I realized what I was doing...

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  3. Walter PrinsSeptember 16, 2014 at 4:30 AM

    Why indeed?  That said, I've read somewhere (previously) that Andy's working with Embarcadero to get his fixes into Delphi.  Not sure whether that's actually true or what the pace of this being done may be.  Andy?  Andreas Hausladen

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  4. Nick HodgesSeptember 16, 2014 at 6:38 AM

    When I was at EMBT (Granted, a while ago now), all of Andy's fixes went into the product.  I don't know about now, but I have no reason to see why that would stop.

    I find the IDE to be rock solid without Andy's FixPack -- but YMMV.

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  5. Stefan GlienkeSeptember 16, 2014 at 6:49 AM

    Walter Prins That is not the case.

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  6. Edwin YipSeptember 16, 2014 at 7:28 AM

    Nick Hodges rock solid, are you sure? And which version do you mean here? More over, Andy's IDEFixPack doesn't only fix bugs, but very importantly, it speeds up the IDE!

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  7. David NovoSeptember 16, 2014 at 9:53 AM

    Nick Hodges Our project takes about 15 minutes for a full build without IDE fixpack, about 45 sec with it. Furthermore, if you look at the recent IDE fixpack, it does not seem he removes many "fixes" as XE4, 5, 6, 7 have come out, indicating his fixes did not make it into the main IDE.

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  8. Walter PrinsSeptember 16, 2014 at 1:26 PM

    David Novo FWIW, my experience is very similar.  Build time down from about 15 mins to about 1m30 or so on a relatively slow box. (I'm quite surprised that such profound improvements are not rolled into the product ASAP anymore...)

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  9. Steffen BinasSeptember 24, 2014 at 7:21 AM

    The same for me: without IDE Fix Pack compile times are trippled or more, barely usable even on SSD and fast CPU. We usually wait for the fix pack before we switch to the new version. With XE7 Andreas Hausladen was very very fast. Thanks for that.

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