How to track 3rd party tools in Source Safe

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Robert Smith - 27 Oct 2004 16:59 GMT

Our application uses several 3rd Pary tools.

One way to track the tools is to add the entire 3rd party installation CDs
into Source Safe. That doesn't seem like a good practise.

We can put the Tool Installation CD's on a network but there is no way to
link the tool to the code in Source Safe that needs it to build.

Does anyone have a better practise?

Thanks for any suggestions....

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Alberiton - 28 Oct 2004 09:41 GMT

Hello:
Why do you want to track the 3rd party tools?
Thanks
Alberition

> Our application uses several 3rd Pary tools.
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Robert Smith - 28 Oct 2004 13:59 GMT

So that 1 year from now, when someone needs to build the program to make a
bug fix, they can build it.

All the components neccessary to build a project should somehow be
associated with the source code. There is more than one way to do this, I'm
looking for the best way.

> Hello:
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Richard J - 28 Oct 2004 16:09 GMT

Robert,

But you won't be making bug fixes to these 3rd party tools. Once they get
installed at your client site, they don't need to be installed again unless
there is a service pack or upgrade available.

And even then, it would seem like these 3rd party tools, as dependencies of
your project(s), would simply be included in the installation tool, whether
that is Installshield or Package and Deployment Wizard, etc.

> So that 1 year from now, when someone needs to build the program to make a
> bug fix, they can build it.
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Robert Smith - 28 Oct 2004 20:09 GMT

Let me try to explain the problem in a different way.

You are assigned the task of fixing a bug in a project you have never worked
on.
You get the code out of Source Safe and try to build it.
The build fails because you do not have a required Image Library installed
on your system.

So where do you find the 3rd Pary Image Library?

Maybe the original developer copied the Image Library Installation CD into
Source Safe. Asside from the horrendous waste of space, this would work.

Maybe the original developer copied the Image Library Installation CD onto a
network drive. Hopefully, he left a document somewhere in the Source Safe
project indicating this....and hopefully no one removed, or updated, the
library on the network drive.

Getting the Runtime 3rd Party components from your installation CD will not
help, you need the SDK to compile and link, not the run-time components.

> Robert,
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