Joe, I was looking for something more enforced than that - so that I can
expect a package I download to "just work" and not waste time with
dependence issues.
Doug, I just read that link but it's a bit over my head for me, not knowing
node, and not having any concrete examples of how it's a bad thing (like
the example I gave with P and E, D, F).
So it's hard for me to follow.
- rien
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:05 PM, P. <uploa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Doug, thanks for the link, I'll read it when I'm not at work. (oops :P)
>
> What about mimicking something like OCaml's functors or whatever they call
> their dependency interfaces?
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Joe Groff <arc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:56 PM, P. <uploa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Here's an unpopular vote, but I'll say it anyway.
>> > How about portable packages?
>> > As in, if you download package P that is dependent on packages D, E, F,
>> then
>> > package P comes with the correct versions of D, E, F embedded in it?
>> > That way we do away with dependencies altogether.
>> > (yes, there'll be redundancy for the sake of convenience. I don't know
>> the
>> > implications re compiling)
>>
>> As Doug noted, generally you don't want to bundle dependencies.
>> However, I believe the proposed would handle this use case if you
>> really wanted to, since you could distribute a populated `packages`
>> subdirectory inside your top-level package's distribution.
>>
>> -Joe
>>
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