Comment by Sl1mb0
> dependency inclusion _should not_ be a main criterion for evaluating how good a build system is
That's just like, your opinion, man.
> dependency inclusion _should not_ be a main criterion for evaluating how good a build system is
That's just like, your opinion, man.
There are no truths but your opinion in this case runs counter of what 35 years developing software have taught me.
Obviously, I may be an outlier. Some crank who's just smitten by the proposal of spending his time writing code instead of trying to get a dependency (and its sub-dependencies and their sub-dependencies) to build at all (e.g. C/C++) or to have the right version that works with ALL the code that depends on it (e.g. Python).
I.e. I use cargo foremost (by a large margin) for that reason.
> That's just like, your opinion, man.
I would love to know how many younger readers recognize this classic movie reference.