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Managing a dependency for a C application

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One of my applications has a dependency on a stb-library. Now I am publishing this application to Github. Should I:

  • Include the header that was used during development with the code? Have an install.sh script (for UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems) that would wget the header during installation?
  • A drawback I see with option 1 is that there may be bugs in the library, which might have been fixed later. However, a drawback with option 2 is that the library might have changed and could be incompatible with my code.

Which option should I choose, and why?

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I am unaware which tags to use. Could a moderator help me with them? (2 comments)
I am unaware which tags to use. Could a moderator help me with them?
Melkor-1‭ wrote 6 months ago

I am unaware which tags to use. Could a moderator help me with them?

matthewsnyder‭ wrote 5 months ago

Sounds like you are asking about packaging, so I made an edit suggestion.

Might be worth adding best-practices as well, since you seem to be asking about "should" rather than "is".