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by humanrebar 3066 days ago
On the other hand, it's hard to grab a half dozen C++ libraries off the shelf and just use them together without issues.
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True. That is getting better though and lots of people are putting time into solving that. It's tricky because no one is talking about the same thing either. Like my project structure isn't your's.

It's not byte code so distributing binaries is a crappy problem too. I am of the mind that a dependency system above the build system(s) is probably the best bet. Not as low level as binary interface, but I need libary X >= version n.m.o...