Paul Schmidt schrieb:
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> IBO also has a much lower pain-in-the-donkey factor. The BDE needs
> to have the ODBC driver installed, then BDE, then you need to monkey
> with the registry to configure both. Where as IBO only needs the
> runtime package included with your software's installation program,
> which is installing a bunch of Delphi runtime packages anyway.

Paul,

nice summary, if not a flame vs. the BDE :-).

But you don't need ODBC for the BDE. For Interbase it's just SQLLinks.
But you're right that it's almost impossible to do a proper install of
these automatically.

And for the app: you don't even have to use runtimes packages, if you
compile them into your app (IBO makes increases the size about 800kB I
think) you don't have to worry about bpl-Versions any longer (something
I do prefer, so I won't have to twiddle around with errors caused by
outdated packages).

Just deliver your exe, that's it. If it's getting too big, there are
some good packing programs out there.

Regards
Luc.