David Heffernan

Make a minimal yet complète program that demonstrates the issue. Until you isolate the problem by doing this, everything is likely to be a waste of time with irrelevant speculation and guesswork.

What's the reputational cost of the current fiasco?

Who'd engage with this without any idea on the details like compensation??

I've never understood why anyone would use getit over the main source repo for open source projects

I love these kind of posts. Just because you don't understand the problem does not mean the problem does not exist.

Sucks to be us

It's ironic that the download spikes caused by all the Delphi 12 downloads have caused this

"This is caused by a hardware outage at one of our data centers. RAD Studio 12 download volume spikes tasked our infrastructure more than expected. " Why would it spike weeks after release of the software??

If I'm running a company like Emba, then I'm not putting production servers on physical hardware with single points of failure. I mean, perhaps there are some incompetent people at Facebook too. I wonder if they learnt from this and changed.

No idea whether or not this is true. However, there's this really recent tech called virtualisation that allows you to be resilient to hardware failures. I definitely think it has a lot of potential for the future.

Actually this just looks like what you'd expect to see during process creation. First we check for app compat. We don't find that, fine as you say. And then we map the exe.

Best to remove process monitor and get on with something else!

Maybe if they just built the web servers with Delphi and use the Delphi philosophy, they'd work

FYI cross posted here (unicode - Delphi - Data is not encoded in given format - Stack Overflow) and with no code there either. As a rule, I think cross-posting is fine on this site, but you should always note that you've done so to avoid people spending time giving you help when you already received it elsewhere. It's just a good courtesy to the people that you are asking for help. But in any case, you should improve the post (in both places) by giving details of your code so that we have something concrete.

^^^^^^^^^

I think the asker knows what GUIDs are used for. However the question is whether the use of the same GUID for two distinct interfaces is a bug or not.

Defect in your code, but in the code you didn't show.

I mean, you were the one with the headaches.

I'm struggling to imagine what headaches would be solved by this feature. I don't know how you can't get a list of generated files by simply checking out the project and then compiling it. All the files created after you compiled are the ones made by that compile.

FYI this appears to be cross-posted here: playsound - How can I play quick sounds in Delphi? - Stack Overflow

There's plenty of reasons not to use AnsiString, unless the library is not developed any more.

I mean, byte arrays exist in Delphi 7

On modern delphi you can't get away with this as has been discussed many times. Anyway just because people got things wrong 20 years ago is no reason to continue getting things wrong.

I was referring to base64. That takes binary input (so bytes) and outputs text (so string). For sha1 the yes the input and output should be binary, that is bytes. The you'd have helper functions to take hash output and write in friendly hex format. At no point should there be AnsiString. I mean I hope you aren't proposing AnsiString as a place to hold bytes.

It makes no sense to me that a base64 function could ever accept string input. Input base to be bytes. This is also kinda weird. Shouldn't it be the native type for text, string.