I think one of the reasons that the Delphi programming language is declining in use is the lame, twisted way that components are added to the Delphi IDE.
I am creating and populating a VM at work so we can compile one specific program in the VM instead of requiring that it be compiled on the workstation of the guy who wrote the program in the first place. The program in question requires that certain visual components be installed in the Delphi development environment. I have installed one set of components, but am having nothing but trouble with another set.
There are four or five ways to add the components to the IDE, but there are no instructions as to which one to use. It is expected that we use their ’setup’ program to install the components, but we have modified the source code of the components to do the stuff we want, so the setup program is out.
I guess I will have to ask the original programmer how to do it. I really hate doing that, but I am just spinning my wheels right now. To top things off, this isn’t even the worst of the components that requires installation. I can hardly wait to try installing QlickView. 
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