An update on XE2 updates

We’ve been really busy these last few months releasing updates to XE2 as we had discussed during the release. Last week we shipped Update 2 and yesterday a hot-fix for C++ developers targeting MacOS X Lion, so I thought I would take a moment to discuss our update strategy in a bit more detail.

We are aggressively trying to update at the end of each month and have so far met that schedule. These updates have included not only FireMonkey fixes but also other product fixes. Of note however, on this particular update, we allowed the development team to make interface breaking changes to FireMonkey.

We understand that breaking interfaces presents challenges for ensuring compatibility with other libraries and components but we feel this important to keep the FireMonkey framework maturing at a rapid pace. To help lessen the impact, we plan to only allow interface breaking changes during even numbered updates (i.e. updates 2,4, ..).  We have also made our partners aware of this plan so they can rebuild against these updates with the potential interface changes. We highly encourage you to stay current with the updates (in particular even updates) and to work with partner you depend on to stay current.

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Posted by J T on November 9th, 2011 under Uncategorized |