Episode 489: Sam Boyer on Package Management
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Episode 489: Sam Boyer on Package Management
Guest Sam Boyer, author of So you want to write a package manager talks about package management with Host Robert Blumen. The discussion covers – what is a package? what does it mean to manage package? package meta-data; package versioning; the quantity of packages in modern applications; examples from popular programming languages; where do packages live? how does the package manager locate packages? how are package versions queried? what are package dependencies? versions, dependencies and the version selection algorithms; Dependency hell; resolving version conflicts; lock files; reproducible builds; what does the developer workflow look like?
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