Questions tagged [distribution]
Of and relating to distributing software.
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Publish a trivial libraries separately or as a collection
As an individual developer, I often find need to write a trivial (let's say, under 100 SLOC + tests + docs + build system config) library that helps me to write code of some other (large) project in a ...
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Strategy for offering a library both a single-header and as a header + compiled implementation
I am maintaining a FOSS library which, for the sake of discussion, consists of a small .h file and a larger .c file (plus build-related files, see below) I've been requested to offer this library as a ...
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Distributing Web application to multiple customers
I am building an app (stack is Python/Django/React and DB is PGSQL) that is supposed to be used internally in companies to track their work, assign people to different tasks, throw some statistic data,...
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Are Git repository and software repository same things?
What I've read A Git repository is the . git/ folder inside a project. This repository tracks all changes made to files in your project, building a history over time. (Source) Repository: A collection ...
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Is using multiple UUIDs decrease chance of collisions exponentially?
For example if you have a single UUID with a collision probability of x, if you concatenate 2 UUIDs, does the collision probability become x^2? val0 = generate_uuid() val1 = generate_uuid() final_val ...
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Packaging for distribution: include CI config and other files the end user doesn't need in the package?
(Disclaimers: I have checked on Google and this site. I have read this answer, which is the only related one I could find here. Additionally, that answer is from 2017, and I wonder if things have ...
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Is it good practice to statically link libstdc++ and/or libgcc when creating distributable binaries for Linux?
Context: I have an open source project which uses JNI. While it's possible to build it yourself, I expect most users will use standard Java tools like Maven, Gradle, or SBT to download the JAR, which ...
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Easy Licensing enforcement techniques for C++ Program in Windows
I am developing software in Window 10 and Visual Studio in C++. I would like to restrict the use of the software to a set of computers, by implementing a license control. My thought is to query a ...
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