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The management of dependencies, for example third party libraries, that are used by a software project.

The management of dependencies, for example third party libraries, that are used by a software project. This handles storage and distribution of these dependency artifacts, as well as version management for them.

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What's the difference between implementation 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 testCompile there is testImplementation. Example: …
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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 build. I had created a new project with just a…
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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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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 its child modules without specifying the version.…
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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 are "touched" by this problem at some point. …
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How to add local .jar file dependency to build.gradle file?

So 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 { runtime files('libs/mnist-tools.jar',…
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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 version?
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How to clear cache in Yarn?

I am doing some benchmark tests for Facebook's Yarn. For this, I need to clear my global Yarn cache. Is there a command available for this? I have force-removed my ~/.yarn-cache folder, but this seems to be quite manual.
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Maven equivalent for python

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?) Is there a python equivalent to achieve these…
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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's pom as a dependency. X is marked as a release…
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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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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 following: "To include it within your project, just…
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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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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": { "monolog/monolog": "*.*.*" } } Then I…
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In Gradle, how do I declare common dependencies in a single place?

In Maven there is a very useful feature when you can define a dependency in the section of the parent POM, and reference that dependency from child modules without specifying the version or scope or whatever. What are the…
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