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How long did downloading dependencies take? That's part of the build process.

As a maintainer of a project that includes another popular library from Google, here's why it's difficult to build:

- building requires downloading Googles custom toolchain and build system

- dependencies are huge, so you have lenghty download times even on fast connections

- it usually works if you are using a recent versions of OS and Python, but if you try running the same command in a year or two it might fail because they changed the requirements

- if anything fails you have to dig through multiple levels of abstractions to figure out where it failed and why

- if you want to maintain software for a few years, you'll have to keep fixing the build process because the build will suddenly stop working for unknown reasons once a year or so

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>How long did downloading dependencies take?

Around 5 minutes.

>That's part of the build process.

It's dependent on one's internet speed so I didn't think it made much sense to time it. If it took 20 to 30 minutes to download I would have mentioned it.