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by na85 2994 days ago
I guess I'd compile them like anything else: using Make to invoke the compiler.

Checking versions can be accomplished by using awk or another tool to compare output from $compiler --version.

What am I missing?
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sk5t 2994 days ago
Your makefile / build script would grow so complex so as to start reimplementing maven or gradle.
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dcow 2994 days ago
What if two things share a dependency?
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na85 2994 days ago
Do you mean a conflicting dependency in one of my 5 projects? If so, it's on me to pay that technical debt and fix my own crap.

If the dependency doesn't conflict, then my package manager takes care of it.

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pas 2994 days ago
In the JVM world it's not uncommon to have different sets of versions of the same libraries for different but dependent projects. And it's not a problem, because classloading is hierarchical and so different versions can live side by side even inside one JVM.

And a lot of Java/Groovy/Scala/Kotlin libs are on Maven Central, but not packaged for let's say CentOS/Ubuntu/Debian/etc. So the package manager for JVM is Ivy (ivy2), or full Maven (which is basically ivy + a task runner).

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