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Re:Fidget by rtpg on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @05:45PM (#42639318)
> libfive is 40K lines of mostly C++, and is extremely challenging to hack on, even as the original author. It's also frustrating to touch: if it's been a few months since I last compiled it, it's inevitable that the build will have broken, and I'll have to mess with CMake for 10 minutes to unbreak it.

I'm a bit shocked at this. Is build breakage that much of an issue? Is this "we are merging in patches and then fixing them up later"? Why would something not being touched break?

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Re:Fidget by mkeeter on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @06:05PM (#42639505)
This wouldn't be an issue if I locked my computer in a safe, but the rest of the system is changing underneath me: I may have a new laptop, a new CMake version, a new Qt install location, etc. Having everything managed through Cargo does a great job of isolating me from those kind of changes.
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Re:Fidget by mehackernewsacc on Thursday January 09, 2025 @11:08AM (#42646973)
Just in case you are unaware, these build issues are entirely solvable by defining a Nix flake for your project, resulting in a repeatable, reproducible build every time:

https://nixos.org/ https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Flakes

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Re:Fidget by spopejoy on Sunday January 12, 2025 @02:23PM (#42676082)
> build issues are entirely solvable

Until they're not, at which point if you're not a nix+flake wizard you're completely at sea :)

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