Questions tagged [third-party-libraries]
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How can I painlessly upgrade my team's codebase to Visual Studio 2017?
So our team has products that currently runs on Visual Studio 2013. Now we want to move to Visual Studio 2017. So I've been assigned the task to make the transition to Visual Studio 2017 as painless ...
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Put source code for dependencies within the project itself
I have a project that depends on external libraries that can be installed through a package manager (pip in this case). But I do not expect my users to have knowledge of installing these dependencies ...
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Third party dependencies management
I'm looking for a strategy to manage my third party dependencies. I don't mean package managers and vendor techs, I mean a process of making decisions about to add a third party lib or to write ...
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PM opting for an overly-complex setup which nobody has experience with [closed]
Recently I started a project which didn't seem too hard to make, the concept was a fairly simple application that had to accept input every now and then (maybe 10x a day), and try to perform some ...
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How should I access a third party API which requires a key?
I am accessing a third-party API. It requires a key, which is the same key for all of my users. Currently, my application includes that key in the client-side code, and calls the third party API ...
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If there are two ways of approaching a task, how should one choose between them?
I have a specific use case, and have found 3 ways of doing it across the internet, which are defined for vague usage cases. I am staring at these three wondering which to apply.
I tend to sit there ...
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Best practices for when a 3rd party dependency breaks?
I am working in a php project, and our 3rd party dependencies are managed with packagist via composer.json. Pretty standard stuff. Sometimes we run into a situation where a given plugin has some issue,...
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Three.js Screen Tear
Using Three.js Revision 51 (Yes I know the latest is 84) I am getting a screen tear at random times on the load of my page. It seems like it's 50% whether it's a hard refresh or a fresh load of the ...
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How do you use external libraries in git?
SFML, in this case, has a Git repo and a download page. Until now I have always downloaded from the download page, which came (at least for the compiler I use) with .a and .hpp files and could easily ...
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Framework logs on client application
We are currently building a framework (closed source static library) that will communicate with some Smart home devices via Wi-Fi. This framework will be used by 3rd party developer to build their own ...
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Should you include libraries and code-unrelated files in your git project and upload them to Github?
When you are working with an external library in git, should you add it to Git or should it be in gitignore? If you put it in gitignore, you run into the problem that if someone (or you yourself on ...
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Best approach to learn OpenCV to use with Swift? [closed]
I am trying to figure out how to use OpenCV with XCode's Swift. I need to do realtime video processing for the project I am working on, but I can't seem to find any good references on learning OpenCV ...
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How can I reduce the manual effort for wrapping third party libraries with a larger object model?
Like the author of this question from 2012 and this one from 2013, I have a 3rd party library that I need to wrap in order to properly test my application. The top answer states:
You always want to ...
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Should third-party types be exposed in a public API?
tl;dr: Should I avoid exposing third-party types in a public interface?
I'm working on a Kotlin-based project that relies heavily on data keyed with two values. It's just something I'm tinkering ...
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Is it a bad practice to subscribe to an event with an Action
I use a third party library for speech recognition.
This library give me access to some classes ( SpeechRecognitionEngine, SpeechRecognitionConfiguration etc) which give me access to some events (...
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