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Re:Please stop breaking the build by ForHackernews on Sunday March 15, 2015 @02:38AM (#9205610)
> The build may also break because of a change in an external dependency.

It shouldn't unless you've been lax in how you specify your dependencies, or the library maintainers have been sloppy in what they claim for backwards-compatibility.

Obviously in the real world, both of those things happen.

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Re:Please stop breaking the build by zeendo on Sunday March 15, 2015 @01:19PM (#9207212)
Package repositories go down too (Maven, RubyGems, NPM, etc...).

Unless by 'lax' you mean 'didn't check in your dependencies'...I don't think I'd call that lax, though.

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Re:Please stop breaking the build by ForHackernews on Sunday March 15, 2015 @02:29PM (#9207456)
At my work, we run a local mirror/proxy for dependencies. It's polite because we're not hitting those external services as frequently, and it has the advantage that we aren't reliant on them to produce builds.
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