Logical Data Modeling - Dependency (Coupling) in code.
A (module|package|library) often requires other (packages|module) to be installed to function correctly. Such a relation is called a dependency.
Coupling or dependency is the degree to which each program module relies on each one of the other modules.
Dependencies are not only dynamic with modules, there is also static one such as:
A library dependency define an an abstraction layer in your code.
If you need to add a dependency in your project, you may:
The issue with:
This is a trade-off. Git try to address this issue with submodules (see also git sub-project)
A dependency of a dependency is a transitive dependency.
An exported dependency is a library that will be found in the compile classpath of the consumer (ie exported to the consumer)
see dependency graph
Services relationship (ie dependency).
All component are placed on a circle and if they have a dependency you will draw a line between this components. And as you see, you got a sort of big planet of death … Beautiful.
One reason people use symbolic references (like semantic versioning) is so that we can refer to “anything greater than 2.3.4” and not worry about the specific thing that’s used.
As numerous incidents have demonstrated late-binding in production is evil and no sane Ops person would ever do this. How one developer just broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript
Possible solution is called package relocation
Doppelgangers is the same dependency installed twice at two differents location.