How do you manage your Delphi Projects with third-party components in Version Control?

Question

Installing third-party components always take a long time specially if you have large ones, but also it take more time if you setup the environment in more than one computer.

Answer 1

If we have the source, then we include that in our repository, under a separate folder.

If we don't have the source, then we just keep the most recent binaries (bpl, dll, whatever) in the repository, and include installation / usage instructions in a setup document.

It looks like this:

\root
    \third_party_stuff
        \vendor1  --we *do* have the source for this
            \src
            \bin
        \vendor2  --we *do* have the source for this
            \src
            \bin
        \vendor3  --we don't have the source for this one
            \bin
    \our_stuff
        \project1
            \src
            \bin
        \project2
            \src
            \bin