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Those links seem quite harmless. It's just two sites translated from persian to english. Second link is pouyafars blog and the first is a forum. I don't see the immediate need to act. And translate.goog belongs to google.

... and used TForm1, ComboBox1 ..hmmm.. Sure!

A good way to share sources and projects, is to use GitHub or similar.

By default, (lib)curl uses OpenSSL for SSL/TLS. Guess what else uses OpenSSL by default? Indy, which is pre-installed in Delphi.

Too much has happened with links that lead to previously unknown sites. Bear with us, we'll learn to trust each other soon enough.

You are right I did this link deleted.

Well, I guess it is logical... old fruit will turn "gammel" 🙂

I never had problems opening a project with a Delphi version which was created with a higher version. Usually Delphi ignores everything it doesn't expect and adds anything missing what is needed. So when the goal is to open the project in the IDE it doesn't really matter which way we choose. Perhaps others prefer to work differently, but I tend to do the work with the latest Delphi version and make fixes for previous versions when needed - namely when the build fails. The build starts with the lowest compiler version and therefore any incompatibilities in code are exposed early. Up to now I never had problems with project files. That may be related to normalizing the projects with Project Magician, which also strips a whole bunch of unnecessary garbage from the project files. The MMX project mentioned in my previous comment has only one DPR and DPROJ file for all Delphi versions from Seattle to Alexandria. Obviously I cannot rule out any problems appearing with other projects. Although, I tend to tackle those when they actually appear instead of trying to avoid anything unknown in advance.

Simply adding or changing the units or resources that need to be included in a dproj for specific compiler versions. Or compiler options for that matter - delphi is not without it's issues that needs work arounds.

Your libcurl DLL version is out of date (12-Oct-16). Download the latest version for your OS from the official site. With best regards Thomas

Not sure if that helps with your DLL issue, but are you aware that Curl already might be installed ? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9507353/how-do-i-install-and-use-curl-on-windows Maybe you can make use of the system one.

For the OP - here's a direct link to download the 10.3.1 ISO. Of course it will only be of use to you if you are registered for this version: http://altd.embarcadero.com/download/radstudio/10.3/delphicbuilder10_3_1_194899.iso

Other way would be for example cURL, or Indy / Synapse / mORMot.

See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72636489/tls-1-3-for-net-4-0-under-windows-7#comment128310433_72636489

Precision-wise probably nothing, multimedia timers are supposed to be the closest you can get. It is transparent though (you can see what is happening under the hood) and it is a drop-in replacement for TTimer which means 0 code change is required. It's also good to leave a variety of options so OP and future visitors can choose their favorite flavor.

"... In theory, there's not much required. But it seems every one has had one or two major melt-downs per year. ..." Really, I have run a Postgres server for 15 years, one "meltdown" only and that was due to Linux. Not much traffic, storing about 1 million records per year. But still. More impressive, Dell server with three 15' rpm disks. You do the math The quality of that server is just fantastic.

Don't forget that you also have managed services for databases. For example, AWS RDS. It automatically handles some manage tasks for you, like installing, upgrading, backup, replication, etc. And still, you have the advantages of DB, which is you still "own it".

The more "fancy" you go, the more unusual challenges you'll meet. I like vanilla. It goes with everything, and the problems I get, have already been solved by others. I think the real question is - Do I need actual SQL abilities or do I just need a basic keystore (key = value(s)). If you need SQL, you need to know - How scalable does it need to be - Do I want to go free/self-hosted or paid/hosted (or the variations in between) - Usually, you get what you pay for. If you just need a keystore, someone else needs to chip in, as I've only done SQL DBs. MongoDB was all the rage for a while in the web store world. Not sure if it has been superceeded by something newer and more shiny? This is true - but even so, enterprise solutions are swinging heavily towards cloud hosting and third party services. That is worth noticing.

I would go with Supabase. In the end it's "just" postgreSQL, but they sprinkled tons of sugar on top of it.

Which component?

I cannot download anything anymore. Even stuff I already own. It just says Update Subscription Expired Request Renewal Quote. This seems illegal to me since I already bought the products. I don't think it used to work this way.

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There was a change that only with active subscription you can download from Registered Products Portal.

Well that's annoying.. I've just checked my Registered Products Portal, and I can no longer download the last version - Delphi Berlin 10.1 - that my Subscription Updates took me to before I ended my subscription. Like the OP, I maintain that I should be allowed to download the latest version which I had paid for, without having to renew my subscription.

That is great, because YAML - Yikes Awful Markup Language