3.17.12. Managing dependencies

There are a lot of different ways to deal with dependencies. We start with widely used anti-patterns and explain why they are anti-patterns. The second part will contain an examples of good approaches and list of requirements that any other package manager should satisfy.

• 3.17.12.1. Bad way
  • 3.17.12.1.1. Merge sources
  • 3.17.12.1.2. Copy to “third_party” directory
  • 3.17.12.1.3. Git submodule
  • 3.17.12.1.4. Summary
• 3.17.12.2. Good way
  • 3.17.12.2.1. Package manager
  • 3.17.12.2.2. ExternalProject_Add
  • 3.17.12.2.3. Requirements