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by _ph_
3225 days ago
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And with my professional experience, sometimes maintaining a program over a decade, I have to agree. When you are using an external library, you have to at least have a copy of the version you are using. Repositories might go away without a warning. Also, you want to go to a new version only after some review. Ideally, you don't have any local modifications - if you patch libraries, you should donate the changes back. But then, it happened that patches were rejected. In the end you are going to need a local copy/branch for several reasons. |
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Happened here recently - modules used in the core build aren't versioned which means when someone external updated a module with an incompatible change, the build broke.
Moral: Never build direct from CPAN / GOPAN / CCAN / WHATEVSPAN without pinned versions.