Chapter 5. Package management
This chapter covers
- Understanding how Nimble helps you develop software
- Using Nimble packages to develop software
- Creating Nimble packages and publishing them
Today package managers have a central role in the development of software. This was not always the case; the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, or CPAN, was one of the first large software repositories to have existed solely for a specific programming language. It consists of over 150,000 modules of Perl code, making it one of the biggest software module repositories from a single programming language. It’s also one of the earliest examples of such a software repository; its success has influenced many others. Today, software repositories exist for ...
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