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0 pointsjoshuamorton6y ago0 comments

These things all exist if you use something like bazel/pants/buck to manage your dependencies. When you can construct a DAG of the entire dependency structure you can see exactly how much you depend on any given thing (and get fun dot-graphs of it!). But that requires being precise with dependency declaration in a way that a lot of people don't want to be.

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geezerjay6y ago

> But that requires being precise with dependency declaration in a way that a lot of people don't want to be.

Some programming language stacks already fix that problem in a transparent way. Take Microsoft's .NET Core+Nuget stack. Developers can add packages to a project without specifying a version number (implicitly it's the latest release) and dependencies are checked when all dependencies are restored.

IIRC Rust's cargo also follow a similar approach, and so do npm and yarn. So, that's pretty much standard at this point.

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geezerjay6y ago

> But that requires being precise with dependency declaration in a way that a lot of people don't want to be.

IIRC Rust's cargo also follow a similar approach, and so do npm and yarn. So, that's pretty much standard at this point.

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