> I checked last week, and it is restricted to 40 beta testers.  There
 > were still 10-15 slots available when I checked.  Becoming a beta
 > tester also means that you have to destroy all copies of the package
 > once the testing period ends.  Also, you can't distribute programs
 > commercially that were written with a beta version.  Be aware that
 > the buglist is in German.

      Well, everything was OK until that last sentence.  It's fairly normal
that you have to destroy the betas once testing is done.  I will also have
enough lead time porting existing code and toolkits that hopefully the
general release would be available by the time I was ready for it.  But I
don't read german and don't have time to learn.  My biggest concern with
switching compilers is the 30meg of third party toolkits that I own.
They're written for TP and if I have to abandon them, I might as well
change languages at the same time.