Jamie,
Many thanks! I took the plunge and downloaded the latest which seems to
compile and work well.
Thanks again,
Steve
"Jamie Dale" <jamie.dale@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:4731a63b$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Hi Steve,
>
> Well as Remy says it's not likely to happen.
>
> Don't get me wrong I wish it would however the Indy pit crew (Thats Remy
> and a few others) are unlikely to implement this.
>
> To my understanding (Remy will correct me if I'm wrong) the code is shared
> to members of the Indy pit crew from one location - IE the server, and
> they work on it remotely.. or lock it, download it, work on it, upload and
> unlock it. Now unfortunately, to change that would undoubtedly mean a
> MAJOR change in the way the team does things (I think..).
>
> There's also a 2nd reason why this hasn't been done from my side of
> things. Although I'm one of 5 or 6 webmasters (and probably the only
> slightly active one) our hands are tied. The software which is used for
> the site (also created by the same people from my understanding), doesn't
> give us the ability to manage the actual download files (EG the .zip
> files) because they are stored on seperate servers. We only have access to
> the actual web pages, templates, directories etc. I have no ability to
> manage the downloadable files. That is down to the indy pit crew and so
> while I do agree with your idea of having a monthly stable download, I can
> not implement it myself. I'm reluctant to push this issue with Remy or
> Chad (The creator of Indy in it's early days) as these are VERY busy
> people and they maintain and work on Indy free as volunteers (I think it's
> actually more of a hobby though I'm sure Remy will never admit it!). They
> are also professional programmers who have many other projects on the go
> and other clients to keep happy. Indy is very high quality source for
> anyone to use and is cross platform with no dependancies to rely on. A
> project the size of Indy can't be easy to maintain, update, and still meet
> it's key objectives of being free and cross platform. I admit it's very
> frustrating but the Indy guys have their tried and tested way of working
> and so far, somehow, they've managed to keep the project going all these
> years using it!
>
> It might be a possibility for me to download it once a month, upload it to
> the site (or another server) and then link to that from the indy website.
> This would also bring about it's problems though as the Indy crew would
> need to let me know when each update is stable and then I'd need to grab
> it at the very same time. With time differences between countries, I might
> not grab it until 24 hrs later. I've never put this forward to the pit
> crew for the main reason I don't think they'd like the idea. It would
> basically be the same as publishing a stable version - something which
> they've been set against all along.
>
> I will speak to Chad about this at some point on Skype but for the
> forseeable future, I don't see this being changed.
>
> In the meantime, if you don't need ultra advanced components (EG like
> TIdDNSServer), then Indy 9 is a pretty mean substitue and it is very
> rarely in a non-compilable state. It's basically a finished product which
> they no longer work on except for the od bug fix which occassionally crops
> up. I use it, and it's certainly one up from version 8 ;)
>
> Regards,
>
> Jamie
>
> PS, I also have Indy 10 from a download of about 2 months ago. It compiled
> without any errors - If you want it, let me know.
>
> "Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message
> news:47310d87@newsgroups.borland.com...
>>
>> "Steve Maughan" <GoogleMe@www.com> wrote in message
>> news:4731040e@newsgroups.borland.com...
>>
>>> How about having a stable monthly download
>>
>> That's not likely to happen anytime soon.
>>
>>> once a month grab a version that compiles and seesm
>>> reasonably stable
>>
>> The code is not stable enough that often to warrant that. And especially
>> with the new version of the IDE coming out next year with native Unicode
>> support throughout the VCL and RTL, there is a lot of code in Indy that
>> is likely to change over the next year to prepare for that.
>>
>>
>> Gambit
