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Re:Diving into Other People's Code by SanderMak on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @05:18PM (#11300757)
Love this write-up! It reflects my experience in similar situations: getting things up and running from source often too painful.

Problem is, every (build/config/packaging) tool brought in to 'solve' this problem only adds another point of failure and confusion.

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Re:Diving into Other People's Code by jessegreathouse on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @11:08PM (#11302341)
Yea that's true. Often it's not the code that's as difficult as the build specifications of the project.
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