Indy aka Winshoes 8
News
November 22, 2000 - Indy has been nominated for this year's Delphi Informant Readers Choice Award. Please
cast your vote!
November 22, 2000 - Show you are proud of using Indy.?If you
have a product that uses Indy, you may have it listed
at our web-site.
November 16, 2000 - Indy 8.009b is now available including an installation program and a source-code
distribution.?This version fixes several bugs with Indy 8.008b.牋do
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November 11, 2000 - Indy 8.008b is now available with a beta installation program and a source-code distribution along with an updated help file.?Download
For older announcements see the announcement archive.
Internet Direct - "Indy"
During development Winshoes 8 was code named "Project Mercury". Because of the amount of work that was
put into Winshoes 8, and the fact that in the future Winshoes will also work on Linux we felt the need to drop
the "WINdows" part of the name. "Shoes" was not very appealing so we came up with a new name.
That new name is "Internet Direct", or Indy for short.
The Winshoes Dev Team is now also called the Indy Pit Crew.
What's New? //这才是重点啊
Indy has been a major undertaking to say the least. Here is a quick summary of some of the features.
Included in Delphi - Indy will be included with Delphi 6 and Kylix.
Complete Rebuild - Indy is not just an upgrade to Winshoes 7. Winshoes 8 was redesigned from the ground up and rebuilt line by line. We started Indy with one source file, and ported or rewrote each individual line. No code escaped scrutiny.
Documentation - A completedo
cumentation effort is now under way.
New Demos - New and better demos.
Linux Support - Kylix will be supported.
New Features - Many new features and components, way to numerous to list here.
Why Indy and not the included NetMasters components?
See what NetMasters own customers have to say about them and their components.
Want to Help?
Documentation - This is the area that we need the most help with. Be the envy of your peers by getting your
name listed in the help file! Join thedo
cumentation Team.
Code - Because of some NDA issues with Kylix we cannot allow direct access to Indy 8.000. However to
permit developers to add their own protocol implementations, we have opened the Indy 8.100 project in Uniteam.燭hese works will be included in Indy 8.100 which will be released under the Indy License. Join
the Indy 8.100 Public Dev Team.
Demos - We are accepting Demos. We allow a modest about box and will credit you else
where also. Join
the Demo Team.
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Indy is available for Delphi 4, Delphi 5, C++ Builder 4, and C++ Builder 5. We have dropped support for Delphi
3 and C++ Builder 3. If you are still using Delphi 3 and C++ Builder 3 you should continue to use Winshoes
7 or ICS. Since we are no longer developing Winshoes 7,
if you need support for Delphi 3 or C++ Builder 3 it is strongly recommended you investigate ICS
as it is still supported for those compilers. ICS supports Delphi
1 - 5 and C++ Builder 1 - 5.
Indy is NOT source compatible with Winshoes 7. They work very similar and once class names have been adjusted, most source code can be adjusted with minimal changes. Also since Indy uses different class names, both Winshoes 7 and Indy can be loaded and active at the same time.
