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Exactly. This is code reuse done properly, not "dependency hell".
The graph was partially motivated by the experience of compiling a few open source projects in windows. In Gentoo it's not "dependency hell".
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The graph was partially motivated by the experience of compiling a few open source projects in windows. In Gentoo it's not "dependency hell".
Why didn't you call it something non-controversial like "A visualisation of open-source software dependencies" instead of "A nice picture of (dependency) hell" , then?
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The graph was partially motivated by the experience of compiling a few open source projects in windows. In Gentoo it's not "dependency hell".
Why didn't you call it something non-controversial like "A visualisation of open-source software dependencies" instead of "A nice picture of (dependency) hell" , then?
Sorry if you felt cheated by the title :)
I'm not sure what the problem is here. Looks like there's a large, very functional, set of systems that have a lot of reuse. Would it be better if there wasn't the reuse? Or if the system was less functional?
Reuse works great on a small scale, but otherwise requires a lot of discipline both from the provider (who must refrain from interface changes, or have support for multiple versions from day one), and the consumer (who should be very considerate on which packages and features he uses).
Meanwhile, over in Windows land, I'm trying to remember when I last encountered DLL hell. It's a long time ago now. People simply stopped trying to install DLLs in the system directories and just ship all their dependencies. With the amount of RAM available now, it doesn't matter if you load 100 different versions of a shared library, you're not gonna notice the difference anyway.
In my opinion, that's the very definition of dependency hell - when the system is so badly designed, software is forced to bundle everything and never share it.
Meanwhile, over in Windows land, I'm trying to remember when I last encountered DLL hell. It's a long time ago now. People simply stopped trying to install DLLs in the system directories and just ship all their dependencies. With the amount of RAM available now, it doesn't matter if you load 100 different versions of a shared library, you're not gonna notice the difference anyway.
This could be interesting, but there is too much noise and not enough signal. All I can see is a large multicoloured circle. Why not try to process it a bit more so that this could teach us something?
Can you make any suggestions as to how I can make it better?