On 7/7/20 8:52 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 July 2020 at 07:49:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Businesses will not want to commit to a balkanized project.
It's been ages since I worked on a software project for a business that
didn't have many random third (and fourth and fifth and sixth and
seventh.....) party dependencies. Trying to remove or avoid them would
universally encounter pushback from management. "Don't reinvent the
wheel" they say.
It is really absurd.
+1
To any customer who is shy to include 3rd party dependencies, isn't
using DMD a 3rd party dependency?
But anyway this whole debate is moot because if you like the code, you
can simply copy/paste it (with attribution as required by Boost
copyright of course) into your own files. You keep full control and get
all the benefits of using it.
Doing that these days would be silly. You can depend on a specific
version of a repository without problems. Git even allows you to add a
dependency on another git project, and freeze it at that version.
-Steve
