[p4] encapsulation of third party software

[Monica Sanchez]

Hi,

 

This question is not 100% related to perforce but to the OS. Most of my
experience is with UNIX systems, but I'm working with Windows now and
I'll like to know how you manage the third party software. My main goal
is to identify and manage tools that "maybe" affect the OS directories
for DLLs and libraries files.

 

While I was working on UNIX I had this big application file system,
where most of the applications were installed and all the users run this
application from the same place.

 

Using Windows, most of the tools affect user account, OS directories and
also the registry.

 

My goal is to implement a process where I can come back to previous
releases, just sync the source from perforce and then be able to build
them.

Our build process is now defining system and registry variables, so I'll
have not problems with the path or any other variable.

 

How do you manage these tools for previous releases?

Thanks,

Monica