Andy Vines

On 11/25/2019 at 12:32 PM, Ugochukwu Mmaduekwe said:

You can give Lazarus and FreePascal a try, at least that's what I do these days.

I already have Lazarus installed, I use Delphi XE4 for our internal business apps, I just used the Community Edition for Hobby stuff and playing.

For information for others considering the Community Edition I have tried to get a new licence for the Community Edition and have failed, it appears you have to jump through hoops after the first year as expired, even though the emails said I should contact support, they just referred me to the faq's and CE page.

The FAQ's page states you can update the licence from the web site, I queried this with support as I could find no way of doing that and the latest is that I have had the UK and Ireland agents on (Grey Matter) saying they need to discuss it with me and I have to phone them, so currently uninstalling CE as its just too much hassle.

My CE licence ran out on Sunday, so this morning the licence wizard appears, I tried to download the new version but I received an email saying:

'Our records show that you have previously obtained a trial license for this product and version. A trial license can be issued only once. If you would like to extend the product evaluation, please contact Embarcadero Support'

I have never downloaded a trial, only the CE version, so I have asked support for a new CE licence, if nothing comes then I guess it will be time to move to Visual Studio, I only use Delphi for personal and hobby applications so I can't afford the price of a commercial licence.

CE is Community Edition

I tried installing these components from Getit twice and got the same error, then gave up.