Questions tagged [third-party-libraries]
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Using third-party libraries - always use a wrapper?
Most projects I am involved with use several open-source components. As a general principle, is it a good idea always to avoid binding all components of the code to the third-party libraries and ...
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My boss has a bad case of "Not Invented Here" [closed]
My department specializes in converting customer data into our database schema so that they can use our software.
Right now, we have C# applications that take an IDataReader (99% of the time it is a ...
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How to deal with fear of taking dependencies
The team I'm in creates components that can be used by the company's partners to integrate with our platform.
As such, I agree we should take extreme care when introducing (third-party) dependencies. ...
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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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Why do library developers deliberately break existing code?
Today, I updated ZBateson\MailMimeParser the PHP e-mail parser library from 1.x to 2.x.
Soon enough, my PHP error log started filling up with errors.
Noting where it happened, I found out that it had ...
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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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Is vanilla JS still considered a library?
I very recently found out that VanillaJS (document?) is a library that's just bundled with 99% browsers and isn't exactly native JavaScript (shock of my life). While writing a lib of my own I normally ...
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Wrapping third party library is best practice [duplicate]
I came across with following statements while reading the Clean Code book of Robert C. Martin.
Chapter : 7 : Error Handling Page No : 109
..In fact, wrapping third-party APIs is a best practice....
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Who are the 1st and 2nd parties?
So, this is pure curiosity. I've heard the term 3rd party, as in, "3rd party library" for quite a while.
I wonder why we say 3rd and not 2nd (or 4th)?
Who are the first and second parties and where ...
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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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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 I write an interface API before an implementation?
I've been delving into more "organized" programming recently and I've been learning that I should be programming to an interface, not an implementation. With that in mind, would it be better to "...
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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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How does one keep argument counts low and still keep third party dependencies separate?
I use a third party library. They pass me a POJO that, for our intents and purposes, is probably implemented like this:
public class OurData {
private String foo;
private String bar;
private ...
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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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