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If, like Delphi XE and higher, your organise your projects to use output directories like ...Bin\Delphi####\$(Platform)\$(Config), and back-port to Delphi 2010, then
The Delphi 2010 compiler puts the files in almost the right directory ...\Bin\Delphi2010\Debug\Spring.Tests.exe
The Delphi 2010 debugger barfs with this message:
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Error
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Could not find program, '...\Bin\Delphi2010\%Platform%\%Config%\Spring.Tests.exe'.
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OK
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So you might think that it is enough to hard code this in your base configuration:
Platform=Win32
Well no, the debugger still shows the above error message. Despite the compiler putting it in the correct directory: ...\Bin\Delphi2010\Win32\Debug\Spring.Tests.exe
So there are 3 configurations for the output directory:
Base (for documentation purposes only)
Bin\Delphi2010\$(platform)\$(config)
Debug
Bin\Delphi2010\Win32\Debug
Release
Bin\Delphi2010\Win32\Release
You might think: why is Spring4D still supporting Delphi 2010?
Two simple reasons:
many people still use it
it produces relatively small executables, which still is important in some situations like producing our own Build tool and keeping binary versions of that in our version control system
I’ve a VM with many Delphi versions and want to clean up space from %ProgramData% to install more. I think somewhere in the comments it was mentioned what to delete from %ProgramData% to lessen the disk space used by Delphi installations. […]
The VM is on an SSD, and the GUID directories there total to about 50 gigabytes.So any reminder what I can delete there would be much appreciated (:
Besides saving disk space, another advantage is that you get far less duplicates when indexing your filesystem with Everything: the directories contain copies of all files also present in the final installation (like %ProgramFiles%, etc).
Thanks to Ilya S, below are my notes for cleaning up a machine that has Delphi 2007 and Delphi 2010-XE6 installed.
In these folders, backup delete all subdirectories but the directory OFFLINE. Don’t delete files. Keep the backups in case you need them.
StackOverflow user Kenneth Reitz has written a great on-line and free httpbin tool that responds to many kinds of http/https requests including the standaard http request methods (or verbs) used by REST: get, post (for http 1.0) and patch, put, delete (for http 1.1).
These verbs are not supported: head (http 1.0) and trace, options, connect (http 1.1).
The site is geared towards JSON (as most the responses are in JSON, except for one XML response and a few TEXT responses), but even if your environment does not use JSON, it is very useful as you basically get an echo of information on what you pass to it.
Except one endpoint (/encoding/utf8), none of the response encodings can be determined by the request. This is a pity as sometimes it is good to see how a specific encoding works for JSON, but it is very hard to support encodings well, so I can understand the support is not there (or not there yet).
During the last update of Microsoft Remote Desktop for my Mac, I noticed there is a beta available with a feature very familiar for users of visionapp – ASG-Remote Desktop: it allows you to manage common credentials.
Note the uncommon URLs of both the beta page redirect and the download:
In the mean time, I learned that “Microsoft has acquired HockeyApp. This is a tremendous opportunity to continue to provide developers with the best app development tools and users with the best app experiences.”, but the aka.ms is new to me. Anyone knows what it is about? A successor of go.microsoft.com/fwlink redirects?
New Mac OS X beta of Microsoft Remote Desktop announced.
I’m keeping an eye on this, as future features interest me much: Multiple monitors, Clipboard redirection, Remote Desktop Gateway, Remote Resources (RemoteApp and Desktop Connections), and Azure RemoteApp preview.
BTW: I wasn’t aware Remote Desktop made it this many platforms yet, as I’m mainly a Windows 8.x/7, Mac and Android user, but here you go:
Too bad many sites still do not work correctly with it.
This is especially true for places or networks where HTTP (or even worse HTTPS) is going through a MitM layer, for instance many mobile providers do this by injecting tracking bits to your traffic:
Generic support in Delphi took a very long time to get stabilised. Which means that compilers older than Delphi XE2 are hardly usable for code using generics. XE did get better, but Delphi 2010 and especially Delphi 2009 were hopeless.
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Interesting. And I need to give some thought because when calling Assert.AreEqual<T1, T2>(T1 object1, T2 object2) where T1 does not equal T2 will map to Assert.AreEqual(object, object) without compile time warning.
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 