problems installing old JEDI with D7 and new with D2007

[jonbondy]

I have been using and older version of JEDI with Delphi 7. When I installed Delphi 2007, I downloaded a newer version of JEDI and installed it. Unfortunately, it installed over BOTH Delphi 7 AND Delphi 2007, without any warning that I could see. I was hosed.

I'm trying to recover Delphi 7. Right after the above disaster, all I would get is error messages and exceptions from Delphi 7. I went into the list of Packages and manually removed every package that said JEDI and then tried to reinstall the D7 JEDI, but this has not worked.

What do I have to do to "clean" D7 so that a new install of JEDI will work correctly?

BTW, I haven no idea what the distinction is between JCL and JVCL and the like. I say this just in case my clueleessnes might interfere with my ability to deal with this situation.

I would tell you the version of the old JEDI, but there is clue in the ReadMe or Install.

At the moment, when I try to install the old JEDI, I get the error message "Installation of JVCL200_D70.DPK failed".

Thanks

Jon

 

[DjangMan]

You likely have the old Jedi in your library search paths so you have conflicting unit names. The Jedi install seems to work fine on my D6/D2006 install.

JCL and JVCL are two libraries. The JCL needs to be installed first as the JVCL requires it.

 

[jonbondy]

Thanks for your thoughts, but after cleaning the search path of everything that says "JEDI" in it, I still can't install the JEDI that installed fine previously.

Are there better places on the web to post this question? I tried the JEDI project, but that's a News Group, and I can't even see my posting.

Frustrating.

 

[DjangMan]

Make sure you also hunt down any .bpl files on your hard drive related to the JCL and JVCL. See if there is a jedi.inc on your search path as well.

There are other discussion groups including newsgroups:

http://support.codegear.com/forums/directory/delphi

 

[jonbondy]

I found six instances of JEDI.INC. One is under the old JEDI, JCL, Source; another under old, JVCL, Common; another under old, JVCL, DevTools/Common.

Two more are under the new JEDI (JCL, Source and JVCL, Common)

Another is under Delphi 2007 (DUnitWizard, Source, Common)

What are you suggesting that I do about these files?

Thanks!

 

[jonbondy]

I ended up removing Delphi7 entirely and doing a clean re-install. Luckily, I had a copy of the original Registry values from

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland\Delphi]

That helped me avoid lots of installation headaches.

I guess we'll never know what got screwed up.