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Ever since the RPM format was invented (and surely even before), there have been epic fights against [[wp:dependency hell]]. The Debian packaging format was a blessing for me, and I quickly fell in love with apt-get long ago. Since then, there have been many more projects which have grown into large ecosystems of software, and managing versions as well as dependencies has always been an issue in [[DevOps]]. Here then is a space dedicated to some of those solutions.
== Packaging ==
Packaging software is different, albeit related, to managing dependencies. For example, the <abbrev title="PHP Archive>PHAR</abbrev> format is a way to package PHP software. In the old days files were simply compressed and packaged using [[GZip]] and [[Tar]].
== PHP ==
In the old days (starting in 1999), there was [http://pear.php.net/ PEAR] Now there is [https://getcomposer.org/ Composer], which is based on Node's npm and Ruby's [[http://bundler.io/ bundler]]
== MediaWiki ==
http://wiki.4intra.net/Repo.php is a hybrid approach similar to git submodules that probably could be interesting.
== JavaScript ==
Node has <abbrev title="Node Packaged Modules">npm</abbrev>. https://www.npmjs.org/
== Version Control ==
In addition to managing dependencies during the installation of software, you also want to manage dependencies during the development of software. And your version control system should support that. [[Subversion]] has a notion of 'externals' which can be rather cumbersome and is not really much more than a symlink manager. [[Git]] offers 'submodules' <ref>http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules</ref>. Submodules can work great, but it's important to understand how to use them so that you don't wind up creating more problems than you solve. The point is to have a VCS system that allows you to bundle third-party software and libraries into your source code repository.
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[[Category:Development]]
== Packaging ==
Packaging software is different, albeit related, to managing dependencies. For example, the <abbrev title="PHP Archive>PHAR</abbrev> format is a way to package PHP software. In the old days files were simply compressed and packaged using [[GZip]] and [[Tar]].
== PHP ==
In the old days (starting in 1999), there was [http://pear.php.net/ PEAR] Now there is [https://getcomposer.org/ Composer], which is based on Node's npm and Ruby's [[http://bundler.io/ bundler]]
== MediaWiki ==
http://wiki.4intra.net/Repo.php is a hybrid approach similar to git submodules that probably could be interesting.
== JavaScript ==
Node has <abbrev title="Node Packaged Modules">npm</abbrev>. https://www.npmjs.org/
== Version Control ==
In addition to managing dependencies during the installation of software, you also want to manage dependencies during the development of software. And your version control system should support that. [[Subversion]] has a notion of 'externals' which can be rather cumbersome and is not really much more than a symlink manager. [[Git]] offers 'submodules' <ref>http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules</ref>. Submodules can work great, but it's important to understand how to use them so that you don't wind up creating more problems than you solve. The point is to have a VCS system that allows you to bundle third-party software and libraries into your source code repository.
{{References}}
[[Category:Development]]