QuickReport on Delphi Sydney 10.4.1

Question

I have a license for QuickReport components (I have files for Delphi 10.3). Now I want to migrate to Delphi 10.4.1 but I see the lead author of QR is dead and component development has stopped. For me it is a disaster, I will not be able to switch to something new in a short time. Do you have any way to run QuickReport 6 on Delphi 10.4.1?

Answer 1

I have bought QuickReport with Source and compiled it with Delphi Sidney. Along with some other components related to it, some of them I own since Delphi 5.

Answer 2

I purchased QuickReports version 6 as an upgrade from 5.06.

It's basically the same 2016 version after 2019 modifications and recompiled in 2021 for compatibility with Sydney and Alexandria (the source codes are basically the same, they differ in some minor details).

There is a minimum of new things.

I believe that (some) intermediate version was used because until recently QBS did not have the QuickReport source codes the same across all unicode versions of Delphi (each version of Delphi had its own and different installer). Some things, already fixed in 2013 and 2016, are missing.

1. Are there any significant differences between 5.06 and 6 that, that I missed, that I should be aware of?
2. Why are previously fixed bugs in the 2013 and 2016 versions not present in the current version; is it possible that Quick Reports 6 is not descended from 2013 and 2016 versions?