LMD Tools SVN
Just today I got the new LMD VCL Complete, their pack that includes everything.
Since I previously had both ElPack and LMD Tools before, the actual components don't have that much of a change. The source delivery system is a different story - it's now available through SVN.
That means you can get the latest development or tested releases very quickly, and then just use an included utility to assemble the packages. It's a large advantage versus the large numbers of downloads you'd normally need, although their server's speed was very nice today (topping at about 300K/s, which is MUCH better than I usually get at other components sites such as Developer Express or TMS). In theory updates should be tiny since they'd only include the actual source changes.
It's not all perfect, though - demos and help aren't included, so there is a lot of stuff to install yet (Elpack, LMD, both for VCL and VCL.NET as well as some extra stuff). And for some reason (I'm pretty sure I followed their instruction to the later) I have several revisions of the components instead of just the latest - which adds up to several hundred extra megabytes.
But it's still pretty neat. Not as neat as DevEx unified installer, but the delivery system is certainly much more efficient.
Since I previously had both ElPack and LMD Tools before, the actual components don't have that much of a change. The source delivery system is a different story - it's now available through SVN.
That means you can get the latest development or tested releases very quickly, and then just use an included utility to assemble the packages. It's a large advantage versus the large numbers of downloads you'd normally need, although their server's speed was very nice today (topping at about 300K/s, which is MUCH better than I usually get at other components sites such as Developer Express or TMS). In theory updates should be tiny since they'd only include the actual source changes.
It's not all perfect, though - demos and help aren't included, so there is a lot of stuff to install yet (Elpack, LMD, both for VCL and VCL.NET as well as some extra stuff). And for some reason (I'm pretty sure I followed their instruction to the later) I have several revisions of the components instead of just the latest - which adds up to several hundred extra megabytes.
But it's still pretty neat. Not as neat as DevEx unified installer, but the delivery system is certainly much more efficient.
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