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Indeed, it seems insane that we're pining for the days of autotools, configure scripts and the cleanly inspectable dependency structure. But... We absolutely a
by ajross 1y ago
Indeed, it seems insane that we're pining for the days of autotools, configure scripts and the cleanly inspectable dependency structure.
But... We absolutely are.
- kalaksi 1y agoDisagree. And why wouldn't dep structure be cleanly inspectable.
- ajross 1y agoDecades ago, you'd type "configure" and be told you need to install libfoobar version 9, and you would, and it would work. Now you get npm whining at you about an unsatisfiable dependency cycle because some three-level-removed transitive dependency you've never heard of put a hard lock file in that reference a version that got pulled for a security flaw.