EPISODE · Jan 10, 2015 · 57 MIN

EP38 - Package Managers

from AskDeveloper Podcast · host Mohamed Elsherif

Introduction What is a package? What is a Package Manager? Why Do we need Package Manager? Pros and Cons Pros Break your code into sharable components. Reduce build times. Easy to find well-made packages to speed up development. Resolving versioning in a clean way. Cons Sometimes packages don't play well together Too many package managers with very little differences Examples Ruby Gems (was that the first one?) Python Pip NuGet NPM apt-get OneGet Chocoloty Bower Yum pacman