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

I agree with Ken White on this: delphi 3rd party components' used in production code

must have the source code

Period. Compiled binaries-only distributions are for evaluation purposes ONLY. It's our policy here.

As for the question: I actually does not put them on VCS. Actually I use the latest version that my projects compiles and works. The mess with system, search, library, etcetera... paths doesn't worth. 2 JVCL on the same machine or comimg back and forth versions by any new project? ARRRRGH.

If I have to use an old version to a maintenance system, drop a new VM and install the latest version. It works? Ok. Not? It stay on the VM until I discover a way to integrate on the main environment.

One version of each thing is more than enough.