[darepublic]

One solution to the package dependency swamp is to make a project with little to no dependencies? I'm rambling but I would curious to experiment with an approach where, when I needed a bit of code to solve a problem the "package manager" (more like code procurer) would just find a snippet of code I need, perhaps reference it's origin, perhaps add related unit tests and then I would copy paste it into my own code base.

[apitman]

I've experimented[0] with something along these lines. The basic idea is that it's desirable to be able to reuse snippets/functions across projects, but you shouldn't need to go full left-pad. So basically you run tuplates.py on your project, it goes through all files and any line comment that includes "tuplate_start(URI)" it goes out and fetches the URI (local filesystem or HTTP supported), and replaces everything until it finds a line comment with "tuplate_end". Nice thing is it enables basic templating in any language, and instead of checking templates into source control, you're committing working code. Also combines really nicely with jsdelivr where you can import specific versions of files directly from GitHub.

[0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/tuplates

[cumwolf]

i think this could function in a small project scenario and i like the idea. Don't think that would be super maintainable in larger enterprise applications. You'd essentially be on the hook for maintaining more code as well.