Eric Grange (resurrector of the increasingly interesting looking DWS project) recently posted about a new idea he has had for the DWS engine, which in turn gave me an idea, or rather, prompted me to come up with what I think may be a new spin on an old one.
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As far as I can tell, as of Delphi 2010 at least it is impossible to deploy a DBExpress application without also deploying at least one dbxdrivers.ini. Furthermore, deciding where this ini file has to go is a minefield, and the DBExpress architecture smells very badly in this area.
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NEWSFLASH: I believe I have found a use for class helpers in the wild!
This, even though I have long held the view that class helpers should not be viewed as a general purpose utility. They were designed for a very specific purpose and the authors of the technology themselves tell us how they are intended to be used. Using them in other ways is asking for trouble: they can break your – or others – code, they hide details of an implementation in A Bad Way™ and you are likely to run into limitations because what you want to use them for doesn’t tally with what they are intended to be used for.
But, somewhat to my surprise, I have recently found what I consider to be a legitimate use for them. Less surprisingly, it actually fits with their intended use.
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