XP Home compatabile with new Delphi? 2

[fluke030]

Hello,

I may need to upgrade my Delphi soon for a work project as a contractor for a small programming company. Problem is, the requirement list at Borland.com for Delphi2006 list XP Pro. My wife and I just upgraded the computer recently to XP Home (we had no reason to upgrade until last summer). My D5 works fine on XPHome, but I am concerned that D2006 will not. Several people have told me that there "should be no problem." "Should be" is great but does anyone here know for sure? Has anyone used D2006 (enterprise edition) on an XPHome machine?

Thank you,
Frank

 

[BobbaFet]

Shouldn't be a problem as long as you have administrator
right on the account that you use for working with Delphi.

XP Home and Pro are almost identical, the only real difference is two licenses instead of one. (+ pro has some extra utilities).

Follow this link for the differences between the two:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx

As you can see, nothing truly important is missing from Home edition (except maybe the scalable processor support).

BobbaFet

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[fluke030]

Thanks, Bobba. Looks okay. I have seen one or two apps that state "requires Pro (not Home) to work." Personal Web Server was one of these. I don't know if that was true or merely marketing.

But before I spend $1490, has anyone here run D2006 on XPHome?

 

[Glenn9999]

Borland specifically references "XP Pro SP2" in their data sheet. So you might be a bit wary with it. That's why there's a 30-day trial you can get from borland.com.

You got a lot of downloading to do though - Borland's made D2006 into a huge piece of bloatware. When I tried it, I had to download about 900MB of assorted files. The main setup is about 560MB or so, but you'll also need to have the following list from Microsoft's site:

.NET framework 1.1
.NET framework 1.1 SDK (different beast than the above)
J# .Net Redistributable Package 2.0
MSXML 6.0 Parser and SDK

along with some other more basic goodies (IE6 SP1).

Computer-resources wise it's a real resource hog too. So again important to check it out first to see if you'll need to upgrade.

As far as other things indicate that I've seen, Delphi 2006 has the XP SP2 option as a minimum requirement, so you WILL NOT BE SUPPORTED BY BORLAND on it - they will tell you to upgrade to XP SP2 Pro before they'll even give you the time of day.

There you go - there's what I noticed in trying out the trial.

 

[rcloutie]

I'm running D2006 on a XP Home SP2 without any problem.