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"Peter Evans" <peter-evans@pelcaro.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, I saw there are some Indy components in BCB6, but didn't
> see ones for POP3 and SMTP, unless I didn't see them!

They should be there.  But like I said earlier, the version of Indy that
ships with BCB 6 is very old.  You should upgrade to at least Indy 9.  The
current snapshot build is 9.0.50.

> There being 3 versions of Indy around, 8, 9 & 10, how do they
> interrelate from the point of view of upwards compatibility?

They don't.  Each version has many changes from the previous one.  In the
case of 9->10 in particular, there are major interface changes because Indy
10 is the first version to support .NET, which required a big re-write of
Indy's architecture since .NET does not allow raw memory pointers and such.
A lot of parameters changed data types and/or moved to new locations.

> How will a future Indy 11 fit into this progression?

It will likely change again.  Right now, Indy is undergoing a small re-write
in order to support FreePascal (http://www.freepascal.org), which will bring
Indy to even more platforms.  There is also a separate port of Indy in the
works to re-write it in pure C# for .NET.

> do I correctly infer you are telling me to wait until about Jan06
> before I start to try to install Indy 10 into my BCB 6?

There are ways to install Indy 10 in BCB 6 right now.  There are third-party
packages and instructions floating around.  But at this moment, Indy 10 does
not officially support any version of BCB.

> Also at that time could there be a developed Install (or tested set
> instructions for the same) with the 'C++ support' mentioned as I
> do feel very uncertain about doing this after reading the various
> posts related to Indy installations.?

Indy 10 has a different install architecture than Indy 8 and 9 did.


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