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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by bengalister on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:54PM (#25072536)
I like the way npm does. It has a cache of all downloaded versions and it tries to flatten the dependencies when possible. If there are incompatible versions they remain deep in the dependency hierarchy.
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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by vorpalhex on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:55PM (#25072547)
Npm has so many woes though. Love the idea but the execution leaves much to be desired.
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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by lootsauce on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:57PM (#25074903)
Can you go deeper on this, honestly interested. I use NPM all the time have not run into too many issues.
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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by symlinkk on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:38PM (#25074642)
Like what?
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