One of my favorite blog posts. I enjoy it every time I read it. I've implemented two C package managers and they... were fine. I think it's a pretty genuinely hard thing to get right outside of a niche.
I've written two C package managers in my life. The most recent one is mildly better than the first from a decade ago, but still not quite right. If I ever build one I think is good enough I'll share, only
to mostly likely learn about 50 edge cases I didn't think of :)
They lost me when they advocate for global dependencies instead of bundling. Are you supposed to have one `python` in your machine? One copy of LLVM (shared across languages!) ? One `cuda-runtime`?
manofmanysmiles|1 month ago
I've written two C package managers in my life. The most recent one is mildly better than the first from a decade ago, but still not quite right. If I ever build one I think is good enough I'll share, only to mostly likely learn about 50 edge cases I didn't think of :)
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