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What are the benefits of having a remote database for your command line utility
I'm current working on a command line app that will grab resources online for you when you're setting up a new project locally. Right now all the urls for the resources I need are hardcoded into the ...
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How to modularize and package a client-side Javascript library today?
I've been catching up with the modern client-side JS ecosystem and reading up on CommonJS and AMD (incl. associated tools - browserify, requirejs, onejs, jam, dozens of others). If I'm writing a ...
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Good approaches for packaging PHP web applications for Debian
Many PHP web applications follow this model for installation and upgrade:
Un-tar a source tar ball.
Point Apache at the source.
Navigate a web browser to the home page.
Go through several web pages ...
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Is it 'safe' to expect myClasses to agree not to only call package Scope methods from other Package scope methods?
The questions says it all, but a quick overview of the situation. I'm creating a Model which contains classes (all inherriting myObject) which have a large amount of interconnection. I want the ...
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Understanding Package Management Systems
I am attempting to understand what a Package Management System. I grasp the main concept of it but I have some queries.
Does a package management system install features(compilers, libraries, ...
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How to solve circular package dependencies
I am refactoring a large codebase where most of the classes are located in one package. For better modularity, I am creating subpackages for each functionality.
I remember learning somewhere that a ...
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Is it possible to build packages for multiple versions of Red hat Linux on a single server? [closed]
I have a set of programs for analyzing radiation data and I want to build packages for Red Hat Linux versions 4.x - 6.x. Is it possible to build these packages on a single build server running a ...
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When did the standard for packaging Linux source code become .tar.gz?
When browsing open-source projects that are primarily developed for Linux systems and downloading the latest packages, the source code is always stored in a .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 file.
Is there any ...
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Java-style package naming and second-level country domains
I own a .co.uk domain, and I whenever I've dealt with Java-style package naming, I've gone with uk.co.domainname. Once I encountered package that did the following: co.uk.domainname.
Is one of these ...
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What should I use for a package name if I don't have a domain? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the point of Java’s package naming convention?
What package name to choose for a small, open-source Java project?
I write Java (and derivative languages with ...
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What package name to choose for a small, open-source Java project?
I'd like to publish a small open-source library in Java. I wonder what package name should I choose? I'm not a company and I don't have a domain that I could use as the basis for naming the package ...
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Why are there no package management systems for C and C++?
There are some programming languages for which exist their own package management systems:
CTAN for TeX
CPAN for Perl
Pip & Eggs for Python
Maven for Java
cabal for Haskell
Gems for Ruby
Is ...
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Complex Release Vehicle Management
I'm looking into improving our build and release system. We are a .Net/Windows shop, and I don't see any really good tools for Windows for generating the files that are to be dropped in patch or ...
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What do I need to learn to decide on rename/recompile source package names because of company rebranding?
My company is currently at a rebranding process and the brand names have been used in the sources' package names but these names are only visible to developers who maintain this code so nobody from ...
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Why rpm and deb package formats are not unified into one standard system?
I had this question asked on stackoverflow, but it was closed "as not a real question".
So i decided to remove all rumbling and post that question here, assuming that this stackexchange is for ...
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Why we don't import a package while we use String functions?
I asked myself why we didn't import a package while we use String functions such as toUpperCase()? How they get in there without importing packages?
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Best way to set sys.path for “hot library” development in Python?
I have my Python source structured as follows:
+-branchname/
+-dst/
+-src/
| +-library/
| | +-cleese/
| | | +-test/
| | | | +-__init__.py
| | | | +-test_cleese.py
| | | +-__init__.py
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Good practices for packaging Python programs
I've been using Python for a while now, both in the context of personal and professional projects.
One thing that occured to me recently is that I had never thought about a good way to deploy Python ...
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Problem with MVC3 application [closed]
I am working on MVC3 application. I use entity framework, NInject, Fluent Validation and some more Nuget packages. I am using Tortoise SVN for versioning.
Recently I changed the structure of my SVN ...
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Package conventions for MVC app [closed]
Which (if either) of the below is the more conventional/acceptable way to structure packages in a J2EE app? I'm trying to follow an MVC pattern as much as possible.
foo.bar.users
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How can I develop a Package Manager for Embedded Systems?
I need to develop/use a package manager for an embedded Linux system with the following properties:
A master fully controls which packages need to be installed (the slave has no possibility to ask ...
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Package name best practice when porting a library
What is the suggested way (specifically in the open-source world) for the package name when porting a library.
Say I am porting someone else's library where they have used a reverse domain name ...
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How do I choose a package format for Linux software distribution?
We have a Java-based application that, to date, we've been distributing as a tarball with instructions for deploying. It's mostly self-contained so deployment is fairly straight-forward:
Untar on ...
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What is the point of Java's package naming convention?
I don't understand why Java uses the reverse of a (probably hypothetical) domain name as the name of a package, while mostly there is no connection between the domain name that some people uses and ...
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Packages organisation with MVC design pattern
I have been programming quite a lot now and still can't decide which of these packages hierachies was the best:
package1
Class1Controller
Class1Model
Class1View
package2
Class2Controller
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How to link classes in different packages (on different pages)?
Extending the answer to this question, I have broken down a large system into a few classes per package.
Each package is now shown in a different page for readability, but now how do I show the ...
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Module vs. Package?
Whenever you do "from 'x' import 'y'" I was wondering which one is considered the 'module' and which is the 'package', and why it isn't the other way around?
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Naming conventions and organization of packages
I've been programming in Java, C#, Python and AS3 most of the time and in all of these languages there are packages (or something like that). The problem I found is with the naming convention, or even ...
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FOSS Development: Who develops the OS-specific packages?
I have a couple of FOSS projects. They can be a bit of a pain to get running unless you've got dependencies in place already, which I figure is par for the course for FOSS projects.
We know that each ...
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Should package names be singular or plural?
Often, in libraries especially, packages contains classes that are organized around a single concept. Examples: xml, sql, user, config, db. I think we all feel pretty naturally that these packages ...
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Packaging F#/C# Application
There is a .NET application built using F# (the core part, as a DLL) and C# (the GUI part, using WPF). What is the best way to package it and to make an installer package and what are the most ...
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Should I use a root namespace?
I'm currently working on a couple projects in Flash ActionScript, and I've been building up a small library of classes. I've been using a naming convention similar to:
foo.events.Bar and ...
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What is the formal definition of a meta package?
There are several examples of packaging where an application package is built, named, described, even licensed, but contains only setup code and dependencies -- it has no first-class runtime software ...
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What are some recommended NuGet packages?
Thought about posting this on programmers.stackexchange.com but figured I would try here first:
Has anyone here worked with NuGet for their projects? I am looking for some recommendations on ...
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What do you think about gems and eggs? Alternatives?
I've read recently some criticism (see 1, 2, 3) about the packaging distribution system of two popular programming languages: Ruby gems and Python eggs. The most important argument stated against them ...
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Merits of Namepsaces/Packages
Some programming languages (e.g. Java and C++) have language features called "packages" or "namespaces". How useful is it really to have namespaces? It is possible to mark functions and classes as ...
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Abstract classes in package structure
I have an abstract class that will have many implementors. There are, of course, many places to put abstract classes in a Java package structure. Should the abstract class be in the same package as ...
