On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:30:54 -0700 (PDT)
ultranewb <pineapple.l...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> But with any other language I've ever used, at most I include a
> library I need in a directive at the top, or I include my own code in
> a similar directive.
Question: how did you find the library you were going to use? If you
only searched your local system, then yeah, a well-designed
system/language/etc. installed by somebody competent will do that for
you And I agree with you - to the best of my knowledge, Java (and from
what I can tell, pretty much anything based on the JVM) fails at this.
But this also means you're liable to be missing a large chunk of the
tools available for the language. These days, most languages have
contributed code libraries large enough that installing them all is
impractical on most systems. Searching those for things requires
accessing a database of some sort over the network. Installing them
involves downloading the library from some network site and doing
whatever needs to be done to install it.
So, assuming you found a library you really needed that wasn't already
locally installed, how did you deal with that? If you could add a
"require library" to your source and your language would go find it,
download it and install it, I'd like to know about that language.
If you had to ask someone else to install it for you, then you're
probably right that someone else was paid to deal with these
issues. Having been that person, I'll let you know that you had it
*really* easy if you didn't have to specify what version of a library
you wanted as well as the name.
<mike
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