Adam Ruppe Wrote: > Vladimir Panteleev wrote: > > Your tool will just download the latest version of Y and the > > whole thing crashes and burns. > > My problem is I don't see how that'd happen in the first place. Who > would distribute something they've never compiled? > > If they compiled it, it would have downloaded the other libs > already, so any sane distribution *already* has the dependent > libraries, making this whole thing moot.
But if they haven't done any development on it for the last year, but the library it depends on has... > The build tool is meant to help the developer, not the user. If > the user needs help, it means the developer didn't do his job > properly. Isn't the developer the user? > That said, the configuration file, as described in my last post, > seems like it can solve this easily enough.