EP38 - Package Managers

AskDeveloper Podcast - A podcast by Mohamed Elsherif

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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