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by biryani_chicken 1349 days ago
PHP's dependency management is actually quite nice. The community developed a standard [0], a client [1] and repository [2] that pretty much deal with everything I've had to do with PHP dependencies without issues.

[0] https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-4/

[1] https://getcomposer.org/

[2] https://packagist.org/

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So you can use nice tools to bake a poop cake :)

That's not particularly pointed at PHP that. There is a big problem in this industry about where we get our software from and how it's built and managed but that's well outside the topic of this thread. Fundamentally everything is fundamentally broken with dependency management, trust and competence.