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How it started. A brilliant tool that was miles ahead of anything else in its main sector. How it's going. A huge pile of bugs that is falling further and further behind the competition.

Please forgive my naivety and let me ask, do companies really putting their valuable source codes on an online platform?

https://www.ideasawakened.com/post/delphi-programming-how-it-started-how-it-s-going

They just cloned the typescript repo .....

I uninstalled SourceTree (which I had been using for years before with decreasing joy) the day I started using Fork and never looked back - back then Fork was completely free and changed to a paid license later but those 50 bucks were very well spent.

And if it wasn't leaked, someone may reverse it : http://ReactOs.org

Why should I be offended . All my code is open source anyway.

Same. I'm mainly using Mercurial as I somehow get things done twice as fast as in Git, but when I use git, VS Code and its plugins (like Git Graph) do everything I could ask for.

For me "Ego = smart", but your mileage might vary. 😉

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This discussion is endless. Each developer has his own preferences. There is no absolute best way to format code. IMO the only important thing is to have a consistent set of rules and to apply it strictly, especially for a team of developers. Everyone has to do the same so that each person can read the code the others wrote. There is always someone that will not like your set of rules... If you get code from elsewhere, you can reformat it using Delphi code format tool which is configurable with lot's of rules. This tools can do almost my own rules only some alignments are missing and I can survive.

Nice (I knew that) 😉 Yeah too many variables in play there. My example above it was pretty much just the compile, with nothing else using much cpu on my desktop machine. Spring4D really makes the older versions of the compiler struggle. The biggest improvement was in 10.1 In our experience that is usually I/O contention more than anything else (workspace init & source checkout takes longer). Are you using a single vm for the server and the agent? An easy way to improve build times would be to give the agent it's own machine. You have probably seen this before but worth a read if you haven't - https://www.finalbuilder.com/resources/blogs/continuous-integration-server-performance

I honestly don't know. To be honest, I didn't spend enough time on it to figure out whether it was a fundamental problem with having the framework embedded, just the way I was implementing it, or maybe I signed the framework incorrectly. My app uses iOS widgets too so I have to re-sign after Delphi has built it to apply the extra provisioning profiles which made things a lot more complicated and could have contributed to the errors I received. If I get time, I'll create a simple app which uses his components and try to upload again so I can try with something simpler and see if the same errors appear.

Which would invalidate using the "solution" from jvesoft. Surely they have complaints about it?

Just to confirm, you don’t need most of the frameworks mentioned in the JVE Manual. It assumes you’re going to be installing all their components from the suite which require different dependencies. For FBAN and Abmob I think you only need some of them but I couldn’t easily tell you which ones.

Don't know about JveSoft, but that looks interesting. JveSoft seems to add a whole lot of critical frameworks, are you sure they were all needed for your function ? How is JveSoft sourcecode structured, can parts of the sooftware be easily separated, or do you need to use all or nothing ? I would always try to minimize the critical frameworks, if possible.