A library is a collection of resources providing data and/or services for developing independent software.
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Branching library behavior based on 3rd party library existence
Someone proposed to me this pattern which I have never heard of before and can't find any information on it.
The basic idea is, when building a library for other developers to use; if the developer ...
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What third-party iOS libraries are useful in almost any project? [closed]
Before NSJSONSerialization there was JSONKit (which still claims to be quicker), and AFnetworking makes network requests a little less dehumanizing. I'm looking for similar libraries that streamline ...
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How do you sell the use of third-party libraries to your organisations? [closed]
I've never really had a problem integrating popular third-party libraries into my projects at work until quite recently.
I was moved onto a project team who had historically written code for embedded ...
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LEDA library(C++ library) setup linux [closed]
I want to set up LEDA library in my system.
I have downloaded LEDA library from the following link
http://www.algorithmic-solutions.info/free/d5.php
Instruction given in read me file
2. ...
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What should and shouldn't be included in a standard library? [closed]
What do you consider to be important features to include in the standard library of a general-purpose programming language? Should it have GUI toolkits and other such larger things? Are cryptography, ...
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How to port cli c++ program with GNU libraries from windows to Linux
I need to implement some graph partitioning algorithms for my thesis. I have mostly Windows experience. I would like to know if it is hard to migrate c++ cli program to Linux. I want to program it on ...
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COM Interop & DI : Where to bind?
Recently I have "discovered" the virtues of dependency injection and I absolutely love the way it has affected my code - all the pieces are simple, focused and decoupled; I can now mock all the ...
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What guidelines should I follow while designing a library?
I am working on a Arduino project using the Uno. The project contains a significant amount of code. I would like to create a library and I may even share it later on. What guidelines should I follow ...
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Guides for developing general-purpose .Net libraries? [closed]
I'm thinking of small general-purpose libraries that depend mostly on the core .Net assemblies, and are totally decoupled from the most specific device dependencies (UI, services). One would expect ...
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Is it a good idea to build a library on top of somebody else's library?
Is it a good idea to use somebody else's library as a base and build your own library over that.
I want to make a JavaScript Canvas framework for a animation player on top of KineticJS. Should I do ...
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A simple C library filling the gaps in standard (C, POSIX) libraries?
I'm looking for a C function library, which would contain a collection of simple and plain utility functions "missing" from C or POSIX standards. I found this earlier question, but answers there list ...
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Restrictions Calling DLLs Across Technologies?
I want to call a DLL in my programming language of 'choice'. The documentation surrounding this clearly states that it must be a 32-bit DLL written in C, C++ or Delphi. But I wanted to call a DLL ...
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Are there open-source JavaScript libraries addressing multiple browser tabs and client state for newer browsers?
There are a few new HTML5 features that have made it into recent browsers that allow sharing state among tabs, browser windows, same domain windows, etc. So it's probably gotten a little easier to ...
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How can I learn libraries and stuff faster? [duplicate]
As a programmer, it seems like I spend half my time figuring out how to use various libraries/frameworks/tools. First Javascript, then Jquery, then canvas, then Backbone, etc, etc. Every tool has ...
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Does heavy library and code snippet usage make you a bad programmer?
Overall I'm in programming for about 8 years now and it seems to me that I'm relying more and more on open source libraries and snippets (damn you GitHub!) to "get the job done". I know that in time I ...
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Big project with many external libraries - source code organisation
I was wondering what is the best way to organize my source code. I was researching on SO and found http://stackoverflow.com/a/1398594/137261 but this source code layout is library specific and doesn't ...
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Is it bad to reuse other programmer's code libraries that can perform generic tasks? [duplicate]
Reusing large amount of helpful codes made by other programmers is very tempting for me. I specifically refer to codes that can perform generic tasks, such as Data Access Layer (DAL) codes.
I am ...
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Few big libraries or many small libraries?
Over the course of some months I've created a little framework for game development that I currently include in all of my projects.
The framework depends on SFML, LUA, JSONcpp, and other libraries. ...
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Why don't many languages have a better DNS library built-in core? [closed]
Why don't many programming languages have real DNS client libraries built-in core? For example Python, Ruby and C# lack it.
You usually get only methods to get hostname out of IP or vice versa and ...
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What is the rationale behind Apache Jena's *everything is an interface if possible* design philosophy?
If you are familiar with the Java RDF and OWL engine Jena, then you have run across their philosophy that everything should be specified as an interface when possible. This means that a Resource, ...
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Noda Time vs Joda Time?
In the Noda Time User's Guide, the rationale section states:
the public API has been largely rewritten, both to provide an API which is more idiomatic for .NET, and also to rectify some of the ...
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Best asynchronous server for Python 3.x [closed]
We have an application that does a lot of ajax calls. It is a collaborative application that has to handle a lot of short text edits and updates by users.
Since this application has to deal with a ...
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Services or Shared Libraries?
I work in an environment where we have several different web applications, where each of them have different features but still need to do similar things: authentication, read from common data ...
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.NET Libraries Cost More Than Windows? [closed]
When looking into libraries to make my programming life a little bit easier I've (almost) always been disappointed by the prices offered. For instance, Actipro's WPF Studio is $650. I suppose that's ...
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Importing java.awt.* does not automattically imports java.awt.event.*?
In the Java programming language, why does importing of java.awt.* does not automatically import java.awt.event.* too?
Now, you guys may say that it's because it's java.awt.* and not something like ...
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Should my small software library avoid using other libraries?
I've just released a small Java library that offers only a few classes and methods. Since I built the project with Maven, I immediately used several third-party libraries to achieve my goals, ...
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How to make custom libraries accessible?
I am trying to compile and install every custom module under it's own designated folder. (ex: /myApps/myLinux/compiled_app)
I had luck with Python so far, where my Python is compiled from source and ...
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Did C++11 address concerns passing std lib objects between dynamic/shared library boundaries? (ie dlls and so)?
One of my major complaints about C++ is how hard in practice it is to pass std library objects outside of dynamic library (ie dll/so) boundaries.
The std library is often header-only. Which is great ...
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Which library/framework did you ditch as being too complex for the problem it is solving? [closed]
... and coded the functionality "manually"?
As a rather metaphorical example, you'd hardly need a library for solving quadratic equations, although such libraries do exist and someone takes them ...
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Why don't modern libraries use OOP
I'm a beginner-level C++ programmer, but I understand the concepts of the language fairly well. When I began to learn external C++ libraries, like SDL, OpenGL (maybe something else too), to my great ...
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How can I move a library inside a project's source tree and compiling static binaries?
How can I move a library inside a project's source tree and compiling static binaries?
I want to use a particular tool that utilizes ANCIENT binaries without upgrading it's API usage. This way I can ...
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Should unit test be in separated repository?
Should I put unit testing stuffs in a separate repository, not in the same repository as the programming library?
So I reference the programming library as submodule.
But most open source projects ...
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Why is using C++ libraries so complicated?
First of all, I want to note I love C++ and I'm one of those people who thinks it is easier to code in C++ than Java. Except for one tiny thing: libraries.
In Java you can simply add some jar to the ...
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What are some good open source iOS components & libraries? [closed]
simply, would you suggest good sources of open source libraries/components for iOS Objective C projects?
I've found a few but it seems they are somewhat elusive and spartan compared with other ...
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Why aren't more desktop apps written with Qt?
As far as I know and have understood in my experience with Qt, it's a very good and easy to learn library. It has a very well designed API and is cross-platform, and these are just two of the many ...
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Converting lib from other language to python and Rights issue
If I take a program, and basically translate its source from some language to python, with some small changes, can I do a entirely my new lib or I have to make a "version" of the old one?
would this ...
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When is a 'core' library a bad idea?
When developing software, I often have a centralised 'core' library containing handy code that can be shared and referenced by different projects.
Examples:
a set of functions to manipulate strings
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xmpp flow -server, client and library
My complete requirement is development of a chat engine - including server, clients etc. Currently I am working on things at my desktop only but once done, I have to host it; basically incorporate it ...
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Where should libraries be placed, in windows?
I have just moved from Linux to Windows, and I have to use the Zend Framework library. Where should the library be placed?
Directly on C drive
Create a lib folder like C:/lib/
Create a lib folder ...
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C++ Building Static Library Project with a Folder Structure
I'm working on some static libraries using visual studio 2012, and after building I copy .lib and .h files to respective directories to match a desired hierarchy such as:
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In GSL, why do some functions take a “workspace” argument?
In certain functions in GSL (GNU Scientific Library), some functions take a "workspace" environment as an argument. For example, gsl_poly_dd_taylor from this page. Why? Wouldn't it be easier for ...
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Library Organization in .NET
I've written a .NET bitwise operations library as part of my projects (stuff ranging from get MSB set to some more complicated bitwise transformations) and I mean to release it as free software. I'm a ...
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How best to implement HTML5 support for my validation library
I have created an annotation-based validation library called regula. There seems to be some amount of interest around the framework and the next thing I'd like to do is to support HTML5 validation. ...
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Questions about linking libraries in C
I am learning C (still very much a beginner) on Linux using the GCC compiler. I have noticed that some libraries, such as the library used with the math.h header, need to be linked in manually when ...
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Is there a standard for machine-readable descriptions of RESTful services?
I've interacted with a few RESTful APIs that provided excellent documentation for humans and descriptive URIs, but none of them seem to return machine-readable descriptions of themselves.
It's not ...
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LGPL License in commercial application
I have searched around but I don't seem to be able to get a clear answer on my questions that I understand.
I want to use the Xuggler library in my application, which is licensed either GPL or LGPL ...
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C++ Library API Design
I'm looking for a good resource for learning about good API design for C++ libraries, looking at shared objects/dlls etc. There are many resources on writing nice APIs, nice classes, templates and so ...
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Where is sympy library used?
I'd admire the functions of sympy library, what it does is really awesome. The integration functions are really few guys intellectual work. But where exactly we use them practically on computers? If ...
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Best approach for utility class library using Visual Studio
I have a collection of classes that I commonly (but not always) use when developing WPF applications. The trouble I have is that if I want to use only a subset of the classes, I have three options:
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Using a GPLv3 library in a freemium business model
I read several related questions about the use of GPLv3 in a commercial app but they don't say anything about a freemium app. I would like to use a GPLv3 library in two apps, a free one (with limited ...
