On Tue, Mar 19, 2024, 21:35 Boris Kolpackov via SG15 <sg15_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> Bret Brown via SG15 <sg15_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
> > - One is a dependency manager (a.k.a. package manager)
> > - These resolve dependencies on source or binary artifacts
> > - The second role is a build system
> > - These construct and order build commands
> > - The third role... needs name
> > - This takes the universe populated by the dependency manager and
> > flattens a projection into the specific view needed by the build
> > system to construct a target model (i.e., model libraries and
> > executables)
>
> One things that immediately strikes me as problematic in this model
> are conditional dependencies that are often based on information that
> is only known by the build system (target platform, compiler, compiler
> version, stdlib used, etc). Which means that there is a feedback loop
> from the build system to the package manager. You could probably make
> the user supply this information to the package manager manually, but
> that won't scale beyond basic things.


I am OK with back and forth flow of data, as long as it clears who is
responsible to what.

So id there is a need to query the package manager before requesting it for
more information based on the answer, it is ok.

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