What Makes A Programming Language Good

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-01-19 21:13, Adam Ruppe wrote:
> Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> Your tool will just download the latest version of Y and the
>> whole thing crashes and burns.
>
> My problem is I don't see how that'd happen in the first place. Who
> would distribute something they've never compiled?
>
> If they compiled it, it would have downloaded the other libs
> already, so any sane distribution *already* has the dependent
> libraries, making this whole thing moot.
>
> The build tool is meant to help the developer, not the user. If
> the user needs help, it means the developer didn't do his job
> properly.

I would say it's for the user of the library. He only cares about the 
library he wants to use and not its dependencies.

> That said, the configuration file, as described in my last post,
> seems like it can solve this easily enough.


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/Jacob Carlborg