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Should we include the entire sources of the libraries used in our project?

I'm used to using static link libraries in my projects. This doesn't make the solution heavier and allows to be updated more easily. However, I see some GitHub repos providing in their sources the ...
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What's a good way to manage my code's dependencies on libraries without releases?

I'm writing this small utility, FOSS but not intended for wide deployment, packaging in OS distributions etc. My utility depends on several libraries - some are header-only (it's C++), some are ...
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Is it really possible to have libraries not depend on other libraries?

I often see the advice that you should try to make each library independent. And yet in reality I can never seem to achieve this. Is this BS advice or is it actually possibly in any realistic way? ...
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How to keep your third party libraries up to date?

Let's say that I have a project that depends on 10 libraries, and within my project's trunk I'm free to use any versions of those libraries. So I start with the most recent versions. Then, each of ...
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