It was one of the key things that made me switch to Debian a few years back with it’s Advanced Package Tool (Apt) system of delivering applications and keeping them up to date. Package management is no stranger to the Linux world. What’s a developer supposed to do trying to get the right version without going through the geek junk punch each and every time? The Ruby world has had RubyGems, a standard for publishing and managing third party libraries, since 2003. Using it and managing all the dependencies that can exist between packages is not. To paraphrase Sebastien Lambla:įinding great. NET universe there’s plenty of code out there and some of it is even good (not mine). I remember event talking about it in a fishbowl session during ALT.NET Calgary and there was a lot of interest back then, but no solution. NET package management in various corners around the universe. A couple of years ago there were discussions about. The lather, rinse, repeat scenario has been one dogging developers forever. And it’s something every developer does almost every day (at the very least, once at the beginning of a project).īrothers and sisters, I say stop the insanity! Lay down those manual processes for shiny happy new and improved ones. Extract files to some forgotten location.

Hunt down the latest version of said library.Search for the website for the library you want to add.Since the dawn of time, developers have been adding references to projects.Įven longer, they’ve been doing it through a cumbersome and tedious manual process.

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