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Latest update: 22 July 1998.
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Purpose Of These Lists:

These pages are intended as a place where Borland Delphi developers can find a list of known problems with the products. As much as possible, workarounds will be included in the list, so that the list can really save us Delphi programmers time and trouble.

I also consider the list as a kind of 'to do list' for Borland, so they know what they have to fix in their patches/upgrades. Therefore I am also prepared to add people's ideas about wished new features (e.g. in the Code Editor) at appropriate places in the list.


Inprise (Borland) and the Delphi Bug List

Of course, you are encouraged to (also) submit your bug reports to Inprise. The URL of their Bug Entry Form is:
http://www.inprise.com/devsupport/bugs/bug_reports.html

One warning:
I don't know if this has changed lately, but I have heard many people expressing their disappointment about the (lack of) response from Borland to bug reports.
So I advise you not to expect too much from that; just send them in because I still think that submitting bug reports increases the chance of them getting fixed one day.

Personally, *I* don't forward the bug reports I receive to Borland. For two reasons:
1. It would take too much time, and
2. The way I publish them should be good enough for Borland to be able to take notice of them.

Inprise Delphi Bug List?

Started on 20 July 1998, Inprise is now publishing a list with Delphi 4 fixes and known issues. It's at: http://www.inprise.com/devsupport/delphi/fixes/delphi4/index.html
Note:
There is also list with 'Enhancements and Fixes' in the Delphi 3.01 Maintenance release. This one's at:
http://www.inprise.com/devsupport/delphi/fixes/3update/index.html

Please send in your own bug reports

These Delphi Bug List web pages have been growing steadily since I started, thanks to all people who have sent me their new bug reports and comments to existing ones.

If you know of any bugs (or things closely resembling bugs), please report them by sending us an E-mail message describing the bug.
Until recently, bug reports in all forms were accepted, but it turned out that a substantial number of bug reports lacked essential information, like which Delphi version was referred to or how the bug can be reproduced. Therefore, we ask you to take a look at the
'Bug reporting policy page' before sending in your bug report.
After checking and editing them in the 'Bug List format', the bug report will be added to this list.

More general feedback is also very much appreciated, including typo's, HTML errors, bad links, suggestions about layout, remarks about whether you think certain items are useful or not, anything.
Mail your comments to DelphiBugList@poboxes.com.


Acknowledgements; history of these pages:

The Delphi Bug List is presently maintained by
Reinier Sterkenburg, with help from the DeBug Team.

In early May 1995, Brad Stowers created the first Delphi Bug List and made it available to the public. Many of his original comments can still be found within the text.
In September 1995, Mark Johnson took over and gave the list a better look. He did a teriffic job, as you all can see, because today's list still has the layout designed by him, including the bug images.
In March 1996 John Pullen started his Delphi 2.0 page with also a bug collection on it. At the same time I (Reinier Sterkenburg) started doing something similar. After a few E-messages between John Pullen, Mark Johnson and me, it was agreed that the Delphi Bug Lists would be moved to my Web site. I have been maintaining it since then.

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Download the Bug List (zipped)

I have decided to give in to requests from people to make The Delphi Bug Lists available for downloading again (in zipped form). The HTML files are zipped into: bugshtm.zip (250,626 bytes; 11 June 1998), the GIF images are in bugsgif.zip (39,492 bytes; 31 May 1998) and various other files are in bugsrest.zip (97,774 bytes; 31 May 1998).
Don't expect them to always be completely up to date; compare the file dates with the newest entry on the What's New page.

Mirror site(s)

The 'Home site' of The Delphi Bug List is located in the Netherlands, at:
http://www.dataweb.nl/~r.p.sterkenburg/bugsall.htm.
Brad Stowers mirrors it in the US, at: http://www.aye.net/~bstowers/delphi/bugs/bugsall.htm.

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The Delphi Bug Lists are maintained by Reinier Sterkenburg, with help from the DeBug Team.