Questions tagged [dependency-management]
The management of dependencies, for example third party libraries, that are used by a software project.
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What is the difference between Bower and npm?
What is the fundamental difference between bower and npm? Just want something plain and simple. I've seen some of my colleagues use bower and npm interchangeably in their projects.
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What's the difference between implementation, api and compile in Gradle?
After updating to Android Studio 3.0 and creating a new project, I noticed that in build.gradle there is a new way to add new dependencies instead of compile there is implementation and instead of ...
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What exactly is a Maven Snapshot and why do we need it?
I am a bit confused about the meaning of a Maven Snapshot and why we build one?
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Android Studio: Add jar as library?
I'm trying to use the new Android Studio but I can't seem to get it working correctly.
I'm using the Gson library to serialize/deserialize JSON-objects. But the library somehow isn't included in the ...
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Differences between dependencyManagement and dependencies in Maven
What is the difference between dependencyManagement and dependencies?
I have seen the docs at Apache Maven web site.
It seems that a dependency defined under the dependencyManagement can be used in ...
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How can I force Gradle to redownload dependencies?
How can I tell Gradle to redownload dependencies from repositories?
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Correct way to add external jars (lib/*.jar) to an IntelliJ IDEA project
When creating a new Java project in IntelliJ IDEA, the following directories and files are created:
./projectname.iml
./projectname.ipr
./projectname.iws
./src/
I want to configure IntelliJ IDEA to ...
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How do I add a library project to Android Studio?
How do I add a library project (such as Sherlock ABS) to Android Studio?
(Not to the old ADT Eclipse-based bundle, but to the new Android Studio.)
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How to add local .jar file dependency to build.gradle file?
I have tried to add my local .jar file dependency to my build.gradle file:
apply plugin: 'java'
sourceSets {
main {
java {
srcDir 'src/model'
}
}
}
dependencies {
...
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Dealing with "Xerces hell" in Java/Maven?
In my office, the mere mention of the word Xerces is enough to incite murderous rage from developers. A cursory glance at the other Xerces questions on SO seem to indicate that almost all Maven users ...
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How to install a specific version of package using Composer?
I am trying to install a specific version of a package using Composer. I tried composer install and composer require but they are installing the latest version of the package. What if I want an older ...
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Does it make sense to use Require.js with Angular.js? [closed]
I'm a newbie to Angular.js and trying to understand how it's different from Backbone.js... We used to manage our packages dependencies with Require.js while using Backbone. Does it make sense to do ...
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What do square brackets mean in pip install?
I see more and more commands like this:
$ pip install "splinter[django]"
What do these square brackets do?
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How to find/remove unused dependencies in Gradle
I wanted to find unused dependencies in my project. Is there a feature for this in Gradle, like in Maven?
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Easy way to have Homebrew list all package dependencies
Is there anyway to have the command brew show all the installed or optional dependencies for any given package? It would also be helpful to see which of the install packages are themselves the ...
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Force re-download of release dependency using Maven
I'm working on a project with dependency X. X, in turn, depends on Y.
I used to explicitly include Y in my project's pom. However, it was not used and to make things cleaner, I instead added it to X'...
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Maven equivalent for python [closed]
I'm a java developer/python beginner, and I'm missing my maven features, particularly dependency management and build automation (I mean you don't build, but how to create a package for deployment?)
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composer: How to find the exact version of a package?
Suppose I'm writing a library A, that depends on another library, monolog for instance.
I want to install the latest version of monolog, so I just put this inside composer.json:
{
"require": {
...
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Javascript require() function giving ReferenceError: require is not defined
Basically, I am using javascript to scrape data from Google Play store using:
1-Request
2-Cheerios
3-QueryString
I used Google Market API from Github which uses require as following:
var request = ...
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How do I add a Maven dependency in Eclipse?
I don't know how to use Maven at all. I've been developing for a couple years with Eclipse and haven't yet needed to know about it. However, now I'm looking at some docs that suggest I do the ...
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Installing multiple versions of a package with pip
In my application I would like to use:
packageA, which requires packageX==1.3
packageB, which requires packageX==1.4
packageX==1.5
How can I install multiple versions of packageX with pip to handle ...
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When installing packages with Yarn, what does "incorrect peer dependency" mean?
I've just cloned a repo, which recommends the use of Yarn to install dependencies. When I run yarn install, it seems to be okay, but it provides this warning:
yarn install v0.20.3
[1/4] 🔍 Resolving ...
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In Gradle, how do I declare common dependencies in a single place?
In Maven there is a very useful feature where you can define a dependency in the <dependencyManagement> section of the parent POM, and reference that dependency from child modules without ...
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Maven-like dependency management for C++? [closed]
Say I have a C++ project that is split in several subprojects. The subproject all produce a DLL and different teams of developers work on each of the subproject. Now if I want to build the main ...
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composer.lock: how does it work?
I'm trying to understand this part: http://getcomposer.org/doc/02-libraries.md#lock-file
this lock file will not have any effect on other projects that depend on it. It only has an effect on the ...
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What is the meaning of type "bundle" in a maven dependency?
What is the meaning of "bundle" e.g in this dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.abdera</groupId>
<artifactId>abdera-core</artifactId>
<version>...
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How to clean old dependencies from maven repositories?
I have too many files in .m2 folder where maven stores downloaded dependencies. Is there a way to clean all old dependencies? For example, if there is a dependency with 3 different versions: 1, 2 and ...
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dependencyManagement and scope
I usually put a <dependencyManagement> section in parent-project/pom.xml. This <dependencyManagement> section contains declaration and version for all dependencies of my children modules ...
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Combining DI with constructor parameters?
How do I combine constructor injection with "manual" constructor parameters? ie.
public class SomeObject
{
public SomeObject(IService service, float someValue)
{
}
}
Where IService ...
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How can I manage client-side JavaScript dependencies? [closed]
Although there are great solutions to manage dependencies on the server side, I could not find any that satisfies all my needs to have a coherent client side JavaScript dependency management workflow. ...
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What is the purpose of Mavens dependency declarations classifier property?
I have a pom.xml file and in that i see that their are 3 dependencies referenced for same <artifactId> the difference are in tags
<classifier>sources</classifier>
<classifier>...
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When to use "optional" dependencies and when to use "provided" scope?
Dependencies decorated by <optional>true</optional> or <scope>provided</scope> will be ignored when they are dependent transitively. I have read this, and my understanding is ...
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How do I define a variable for the dependency version in Gradle
I am currently trying to migrate a Maven project to Gradle
In my Maven version I have the dependency versions all listed out like this in my parent pom:
<properties>
<spring.version>...
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How can I version bump all my dependencies?
Having yarn outdated is quite informative but I'd like to avoid running over package by package doing yarn upgrade.
From yarn's documentation, just yarn upgrade without arguments is said to upgrade ...
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Gradle Test Dependency
I have two projects, project A and Project B. Both are written in groovy and use gradle as their build system.
Project A requires project B.
This holds for both the compile and test code.
How can ...
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How do I prevent Maven from downloading artifacts every time?
I’m using Maven 3.1.1. In one of my projects, I reference another one of my projects …
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mainco.subco</groupId>
<...
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How to set order of repositories in Maven settings.xml
I have 3 repositories in my settings.xml because I need artifacts from all of them. Whenever a dependency is not found, Maven tries
Downloading: http://some.server/mvn2repo/releases/org/apache/lucene/...
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Sort maven dependencies in Eclipse
Just wanted to know if it is possible in Eclipse to sort Maven dependencies by alphabetical order?
It's bothering me to have a list of 200 jars not ordered... :(
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Correct way to check Java version from BASH script
How can I check whether Java is available (in the PATH or via JAVA_HOME) from a bash script and make sure the version is at least 1.5?
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Do you know the Maven profile for mvnrepository.com?
I am trying to include some dependencies in my Maven project. These dependencies are not available in the default Maven 2 repository http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/.
They are available at http://...
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LoggerFactory is not a Logback LoggerContext but Logback is on the classpath
I think some module in spring-boot-starter-security is conflict with log4j, but I don't know which one.
my gradle dependence is as following:
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-...
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How to specify a classifier in a gradle dependency's dependency?
Say I want to add guice-assistedinject as a dependency in my project. It specifies the guice artifact as a dependency itself. How do I tell it to use the no_aop version of guice?
I know I can do the ...
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Gradle: Override transitive dependency by version classifier
One of the dependencies declared in my project has a transitive dependency on 'com.google.guava:guava:15.0'. But my application deployed on WAS/Weblogic doesn't work due to a CDI issue which has been ...
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How to check pom.xml for updated dependencies
I am fairly new to Maven and pom.xml. Is there a way I can find out which of my dependencies that are outdated, so that I can update version numbers in my pom.xml.
In other languages, for instance, ...
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How to install / update package with pipenv without updating the rest of packages?
With pipenv, how do I add or update only one package without changing versions of other packages? I've tried both:
pipenv update --selective-upgrade requests
and
pipenv update --keep-outdated ...
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What is CocoaPods?
What is CocoaPods? I've seen that a lot of developers have been using Pods when developing apps to install APIs, but I'm not grasping why you couldn't just import the files manually. What is their ...
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How to resolve NuGet dependency hell
I develop a library with some functional named CompanyName.SDK which must be integrated in company project CompanyName.SomeSolution
CompanyName.SDK.dll must be deployed via NuGet package.
And ...
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In a Maven multi-module project, how can I disable a plugin in one child?
I have a maven multi-module project (boy, I've written that opening way too many times on this site). Almost all the modules (that is, the ones that have code in them) should run the maven-site-...
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How can I make Heroku install devDependencies?
I would like to have Heroku build my app after I push it so that I don't have to push the build folder up every time I make a change. However Heroku only installs the dependencies from the package....
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Missing artifact com.sun.jdmk:jmxtools:jar:1.2.1
I have created simple project from maven-achetype-quickstart under Eclipse Indigo, then I went to pom.xml gui editor and in dependencies tab added dependency log4j by search in appropriate dialog. Now ...
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