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CPAN did it exactly like that, many packages also bundled C libraries, etc. It's a very fragile mess and a mistake package managers refused to learn from CPAN.
by zzzcpan 10y ago
CPAN did it exactly like that, many packages also bundled C libraries, etc. It's a very fragile mess and a mistake package managers refused to learn from CPAN. It is especially pronounced once you have a CI/CD system, forces you to pretty much abandon such package managers and only use them to explore/discover new packages.
- kibwen 10y ago>forces you to pretty much abandon such package managers and only use them to explore/discover new packages Given the unbelievable popularity of Rubygems.org, PyPI, and NPM, I think this is an unfounded assertion. Furthermore, Rust programmers aren't afraid to rewrite libs in Rust when a widespread external dependency becomes annoying, e.g. with FreeType: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/44btaz/introducing_rusttype_a_pure_rust_alternative_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/44btaz/introducing_ru...