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Delphi/Rad Studio desperately needs a proper package/library/component manager. A package manager provides a standardized way of consuming third party libraries. At the moment, use of third party libraries is very much adhoc, and in many cases this makes it difficult to move projects between machines, or to get a new hire up and running quickly. Other development eco systems, like Ruby, .net and Javascript, recognised and solved this problem many years ago. Getting a Ruby, .net or Javascript project up an running, in a new working folder or new machine is trivial. Delphi Package Manager RFC

Indeed, I'm working on it. Now that I have finished my book, OTL will again become a top priority side project. It's hard to tell how much work is yet to be done as at the moment some very basic parts are still missing and I don't know how much time I'll need for them. A crowdfund would be nice - one where you can give me additional time inside a day. 30h per day would be good to have 😉

None of the patches fail to install. So there are no code changes in places that IDEFixPack patches.

Chocolatey is Nuget repurposed for installing applications, not for installing code libraries. It's also a .net application. As much as I love .net/c#, I think a delphi package manager should be written in delphi.

Actually it's "EMB" text compression, probably they should patent it and proudly add in About product information. Much better than LZ4, LZO or LZMA, because it's 3d multilayer

@jbg thank you for the confirmation. I less and less understand Emb. This "new" IDE is so slow, flicker everywhere... Did they use their software? They should focus on quality rather than getting us such half backed solutions...

Oops, they managed to put 1000 lines of code into 10. Is this with the new update?

New Delphi, old bugs, including serious: I think I’m slowly starting to Understand Delphi Hater's blog... RSP-23466 RSP-23320 + hundreds of others.... I wonder if this will ever happen, to manage this product properly, why do they think that developers needs tons of new usless features instead of making fast and solid current functionality.

@Silver Black I guess it is "expected". So many files are envolved, it will takes more time to check and update then deleting everything and installing again.

no, because my events are ways simpler 😉 btw: I use very seldom the "RAD things" ... setting all required properties and event handlers in code looks awful at first, but IMHO it results in a clearer structure of your code. I'd love to see Delphi creating code instead of DFM files (like C# does). That would make things even more simple.

Yes is also for the CE

Hi, When you make a code block it defaults to HTML syntax highlighting. For a Delphi forum it would be better if Pascal was selected by default.

I'm here!

It's not that the override does nothing. There is no override. It makes no sense to me to reintroduce a method of that name.

Why don't you override the method from TObject?

From their website

Yes, this is normal for Rad Studio.