Re: Delphi in Source Code Control System

From: Jason Swager (jswager-remove_at_activevoice-remove.com)
Date: 01/11/05 

Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:48:58 -0800

Thanks! More comments inline...

"Kevin Berry" <kevin@berry_REM0VETH1S_ware.com> wrote in message
news:41e40a68$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Jason Swager wrote:
> It's legal as long as no one does use it that doesn't have a Delphi
> license. :-) The way I understand it it really isn't illegal for it to
> be in SCC though. Unless your SCC was accessible via the web to the
> general public! *GRIN*
>
> You may into a problem with the "activation key" though. I'm not sure
> if the command line compiler will run without it being present?

No web access - thank goodness. Had forgotten about the activation key. I
wonder how that will affect command-line compilations.

>
> > 2) How to go about doing this? A normal installation of Delphi has
numerous
> > registry entries, environment changes, and DLLs registered. Which ones
do I
> > need?
>
> You'll need to do a bit of trial and error testing I reckon.
>
> OTTOMH, you may as well start by grabbing the registry tree on an
> installed system and try tweaking it. You'll also need the VCL source
> (DCUs and BPLs at least).
>
> > 3) Has anyone done this before? If so, did they have any documentation
on
> > how to go about doing this?
>
> No.
>
> Personally, I think this is a bad idea. It would be better just to
> record the information about the patches applied and version information
> of Delphi and then to check in the source code (or DCUs etc. if you
> don't have source) of any third party components and libraries.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin.

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