Questions tagged [third-party-libraries]
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C++ and the suitable libraries to develop Autocad/Autodesk/CAD applications? [closed]
I saw a job opening where the requirement was for a developer
to develop CAD tools using C++ and OpenGl libraries.
I am a civil engineer and want to be part of such a projects so I thought to learn
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As a beginning programmer, should I favor building my own libraries over using 3rd-party libraries?
As a beginning Python programmer, is it a good idea to build and understand my own libraries before jumping to advanced 3rd-party libraries that contains the functionality I need?
Some projects (e.g. ...
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Should I be coding this myself?
As I've always liked doing things myself, I chose to code in C++ rather than Visual Basic at university because I could see what was going on and how it worked.
However, sometimes I feel like I'm ...
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Twitter's new approach of third party application? How would you see this move as developer.... especially you plan to build a twitter client
Just today morning I have read news that twitter has issued a warning to developers not to make any new third party client, the official announcement can be read here.
As a programmer, how do you see ...
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For an open source project, is it legal and acceptable to link to commercial libraries?
For an open source project, is it legal and acceptable to link to commercial libraries?
For example, an open source application I'm involved in would benefit from using commercial 3rd party user ...
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What are some good resources for debugging/disassembling proprietary software? [closed]
From time to time, I experience different bugs with proprietary software that I need to interact with. In order to get through these bugs, I need to develop various workarounds. Is there a good book ...
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How to proceed when a bug in open source libraries is suspected?
We are using some open source libraries in our projects. Sometimes there are some issues found in some of them (most likely library bugs, but it may also be a wrong usage from our side, especially ...
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Is using a lot of free third party libraries a good thing? [closed]
For your proprietary projects at work?
Problems I can imagine are: more dlls (can be a problem when for example you have to include a big DLL but you only need few functions in that library), a lot ...
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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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License requirements for including open source software
In an open source project, a number of other open source libraries have been included to implement needed functionality, some as libraries (LGPL), and some as source code (non-LGPL). The new BSD ...
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