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Copy-and-pasted libraries are a direct cause of duplicated effort. If you all grab it from the same repo (possibly through some sort of 'repo link' mechanism t
by keiyakins 9y ago
Copy-and-pasted libraries are a direct cause of duplicated effort.
If you all grab it from the same repo (possibly through some sort of 'repo link' mechanism that keeps a local clone but is clearly marked as a clone, of course) then when a bug is fixed, it's fixed.
If you copy and paste it, suddenly every fix has to be done once per project using the library.
- hinkley 9y agoNo they aren’t. They’re just a snapshot that works when the internet is broken, or when you can’t trust the internet. Nobody is supposed to modify those files. They’re just a local replica.