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Every once in a while someone figures out that we could entirely solve the dependency problem by packaging all the dependencies with the application. Everyone g
by upofadown 12y ago
Every once in a while someone figures out that we could entirely solve the dependency problem by packaging all the dependencies with the application. Everyone gets excited. After a while everyone gets unexcited when the problems associated with this approach become obvious.
Docker is merely a more extreme example of the "package everything with the application" idea...
- parasubvert 12y agoI'll bite. What's obviously the problem about it? Or, "if it's good enough for Google...." Vendoring dependencies and static linking is quite popular in executables, not just docker. Dynamic linking and shared libraries seem to be becoming a relic, deservedly. BTW, the extreme example of "package everything with the app" is the unikernel movement.