Indy News - June 4, 2003

New Demos

Several new demos have been posted and updated at the Indy Demo Playground. The Indy Demo Playground is available at the Atozed web site at http://www.atozedsoftware.com/.

Indy Reloaded (Indy 10 could be this week!)

Yes. We are working. :)

Indy 10 however has TWO MAJOR problems that have unfortunately delayed the public debut of Indy 10. These two items have been identified but we have yet to find a resolution to these persistent issues. They are:

1. Customers.
2. Day Jobs.

So in search of a solution if there is anyone out there with too much money and you do not know what to do with it, we have opened some Swiss bank
accounts and you can send it there to help us deal with these issues.

In light of these nearly insurmountable issues, we are VERY near to opening Indy 10. However a few notes:

1. It is not completely stable! It does run and compile most times, however we are still debugging many of the complex parts and changing some others. Consider it like a box of dynamite and do not smoke near it.
2. The consistency has been upgraded from sludgy old dirty motor oil from a defective Fiat, to that of English custard. But things are still in flux. Soon to be Jello!
3. The API is not final. This means two things:
1. There may be more API changes.
2. We are still performing an impact study. Some changes will be alleviated. They wont be backed out, but steps will be taken to automatically convert DFMs during stream in, etc.

There are changes. However there are major feature upgrades too. The additions of features that have been added is similar to going from Win 3.1
to Win32 - so many of the changes are unavoidable. We did not go and change things randomly. Most of Indy Core does commerical and corporate
development with Indy and we feel the pain of such changes too.

Indy 9 Continued

Indy 9 will continue to be maintained for critical and other bug fixes after 10 is released, but no new features will be added by the team itself, although users may choose to do so.

What does this mean? This means that if you do not want new features in 10, and do not want changes, stay with 9 as it is. Indy 9 will continue to be supported for the forseable future.

What is Next?

Yes we do think of the future and have already been planning for Indy 11. Its way too early to be specific but I can say that Indy 11 will support .net.