ICS V9.0 coming real soon

[Angus Robertson 577]

Due to the large number of new components and changes, ICS V8.71 has been renamed to ICS V9.0 for final release.

 

All the source units have updated versions and copyrights, some unused units have gone. All the active samples (per readme9.txt) have also been updated with new versions and copyrights and there is a new ActiveDemos.groupproj group that allows them all to be built together.

 

ICS v9 is available from a new SVN repository https://svn.overbyte.be/svn/icsv9/ and also from the Zipped Daily Snapshot section of https://wiki.overbyte.eu/wiki/index.php/ICS_Download

 

The snapshot download URL is: https://wiki.overbyte.eu/arch/icsv9w.zip

 

The final release notes and updated wiki pages are still being written and will be available next week.

 

Meanwhile, I'd appreciate it if some active ICS users could download V9 now and test for installation and backward compatibility with existing applications, particularly with Delphi 7 and XE compilers.  I updated literally hundreds of package files manually, for the last time, and it would be good to know they actually install before the final V9 version is released.

 

There is also a new ICS V10 SVN repository for the next major version with Linux support, but this is many months away from being complete, so please ignore it for now.

 

ICS V9 is planned to be a long term support release with no new components or major features added, just bug fixes as needed, major changes will be for V10.  V9.0 has been tested with Delphi 7, but I had to make changes to several new components due to missing language features and TWebBrowser does not exist, so V9.0 will be the last tested with D7.  Delphi 2007 is easier to support for those building ANSI projects and will become the oldest version supported.

 

Angus