Zeos 7 alpha and Delphi 2010

[Wilco]

Dear all,

i try to install zeos 7 alpha on Delphi 2010.

I can make compilation of delphi14 zeos component but when i try to install the ZComponentDesign140.bpl, i get one error : can't find the ZDbc140.bpl.

I've checked the build directory, there are the all 6 bpl (Zcore140, Zplain140, ZParseSql140, ZDbc140, ZComponent140, ZComponentDesign140)

Can you please help me with this matter ?

kind regards,
Wilco

[marcov]

Move the .bpl's (and those only) to somewhere in the PATH.

Recent Delphi's add some directory to the PATH specifically for this purpose.

For my Delphi XE it is

C:\Users\Public\Documents\RAD Studio\8.0\Bpl

[Wilco]

Thank you a lot ...

It works.


Wilco

[MaleManGuy]

I'd love to get on board with 7.0.0.
Would it be safe to use in my commercial app yet? It is still alpha... I have not seen much activity here... how confident can I be to use it in place of 6.6.6?

[Marius2]

If you compare the two versions you'll see not much has changed (except for the needed unicode changes). I have been testing recently with firebird and that seems quite reliable, i haven't tested mssql yet and oracle is a total failure at this moment (it truncates string fields).

[marcov]

I'd love to get on board with 7.0.0.
Would it be safe to use in my commercial app yet? It is still alpha...

Would me naming it zeta make it more safer? Labels are just labels.

Anyway I use it in apps, but the amount of transactions are not that high (several hundreds)

[Marius2]

Labels are just labels.

No, i definitely dont agree with that. Alpha is by definition a no-go for production releases, a beta is signaling its ready but could contain minor errors..

So are you implying the alpha status could change in a beta status? (would be good for Zeos components in general). Or are there major failures? (like Oracle)

[marcov]

Labels are just labels.

No, i definitely dont agree with that. Alpha is by definition a no-go for production releases, a beta is signaling its ready but could contain minor errors..

True, but since in most smaller projects such transitions are made without a statistically valid way of proofing if such state is reached, (if only because to get bugreports you must release), the labels transitions are thus fairly
arbitrary.

So are you implying the alpha status could change in a beta status? (would be good for Zeos components in general). Or are there major failures? (like Oracle)

I'm implying that a few users that use the package and give it a thumbs up, wouldn't mean you would not have problems with the featureset you use. Regardless of what labels you want to attach to it.

So either it remains a risk, or one has to wait till it is released and there are several point releases passed. (many people desiring stability won't even use .0 releases)

So in summary, the restructures are over, people are using it. So why not simply try?