| > I have a VMWare machine from 2007 with Delphi 7 and tons of components from that era, that works like a charm to this day. I did the same back in 2007 or 2008 after spending 3 days with a consultant setting it up. Then, before I got a working backup, the external drive that we had it on broke down :-/ Still remember the process: I hunted source forge, bookshelves, file shares, cabinets and old vendor web sites to find every dependency we needed. This was around the same time I was introduced to Maven and while it took me a while to fully grasp Maven, once I realized that one small tool could replace this process I was sold. (To anyone who grew up with Nuget or NPM/Yarn: back you added depencies in Visual Studio the same way as you did in Delphi, by downloading them and double clicking them and clicking next, next, next, accept, next and install. And everyone still knew Javascript was a toy language and didn't need a package manager.) |