A library is a collection of resources providing data and/or services for developing independent software.
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Writing an application that calls another application for some tasks: how it works?
I have written a C++ code that calls a solver called CPLEX to solve an integer linear optimization problem (under Ubuntu 18.04). I have three sets of data and I use make command to create 3 ...
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What makes PHP a language and jQuery a library?
PHP is written in C, but is considered a language. What makes it different from something like jQuery which is considered to be a library of Javascript? Why is PHP not a library of C or jQuery a ...
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C++ - Is it a good idea to make separate headers as API?
Let's say I have a library code main.cpp, where are 3 classes implemented: Inner1, Inner2 and Outer. Inner1 and Inner2 are only being used in main.cpp and they're not going to be used anywhere else.
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Decoupled design using static interfaces
Now first I want to mention that I am not quite sure what is the term describing the issue at hand but I hope that I can illustrate it with some code.
Problem: A shared class library defines an ...
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Shared classes between namespaces, how to distribute them?
Some time ago I read from this book that namespaces inside libraries should be distributed in a way that inner namespaces have more concrete classes than their parent namespaces. We can find an ...
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Error Handling Best Practice for External Library
My development environment specifically is .NET and I'm writing a DLL to be compiled and referenced in other .NET programs we'll be writing going forward.
My question is: In that DLL, what is the ...
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How do huge open source libraries get maintained while having code far from “clean code” practices?
I'm still inexperienced to write high quality code, so I read books addressing the issue such as Clean Code by Robert C. Martin, and keep checking code of well-known libraries to improve my skills.
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Microservice Architecture: Localizing core logic in a separate code base
I stepped away from a project for a few weeks. Before leaving the organization was discussing an architectural pattern for our microservices. An instance typically serves two roles in our organization....
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Technical documentation vs Software design documentation
I am trying to start a documentation about a class library that is already finished/developed.
The purpose of the documentation is to be used by other developers in order to understand what kind of ...
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Testing framework upgrades
Due to many vulnerabilities disclosures, we had to upgrade our core framework, on which large parts of our system depend. (In our case, it was Spring framework version from 4.3.16., but that is just ...
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Best practices on sharing code between open source libraries
I have an Android library used by a decent amount of people, let's call it library A.
I am building a second library, library B.
The two libraries are conceptually related, they solve different ...
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Should a game engine be outputted as a dynamic or a static library?
I wanted to ask a probably very simple question should a game engine be a dynamic link library (.dll) or a static library(.lib)?
Currently, I am doing the dynamic link route, this is influenced by ...
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Large executable size due to libraries/frameworks
My question sounds a bit dumb.
Usually we are suggested to use existing libraries or frameworks, to avoid reinventing the wheel, or to achieve some "good practices" (e.g. during software distribution)...
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Using a macro for a libraries namespace?
In some code bases (such as hydra, and thrust's tuple implementation) I see namespaces defined entirely with macros. It appears the reason for this is so that you can configure the namespace to your ...
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How to minimize a Java library's exposed interface surface while breaking down the library into subpackages?
I'm making a library or two for and Android app and I want to keep the library's exposed interfaces to a minimum to avoid the abstraction leaking everywhere by avoiding making all of the classes '...
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Throwing custom exceptions in library: do I throw concrete ones or their superclass?
I am designing a library that abstracts a typical CRUD http service named FooService.
In this library I am throwing different exceptions like FooServiceClientException for network related errors or ...
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Cross-platform library: how to organize project?
Our company develops and sells a cross-platform C++ library. We distribute binary only versions for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, Android, etc. The only source code the customers get is the header ...
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Should I use a physical units library for modelling domain properties if I don't need to perform computations on them?
I'm working on the data model of a service describing houses and flats. This involves storing quantitative physical properties of certain features of the premises, for example:
Speed of the Internet ...
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A DLL as an IO module in C++
I created a set of classes that represent the structure of a game save file which structure I do not control. Each of those classes has a read() and write() methods that are invoked by the parent in ...
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Why are developers still using proprietary third-party libraries? [closed]
As the open source world is fairly advanced now and you can find an open source implementation of pretty much everything, why are people/developers still using the obscure/proprietary libraries? In ...
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How should end-users install dependencies for software [closed]
Suppose I have an application written in C++, which uses WxWidgets (or some other library) for gui. When an end-user installs my application, how do I make sure they also install the necessary ...
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How to control optional dependencies of a header-only library in `CMake`?
I am developing my own header-only library that I want to use as a framework in other software. I am using CMake for setting up demo targets, tests, and so on.
However, I am unsure how to deal with ...
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Should a file reader library API throw exceptions?
I am developing a (Java) library providing an API to read a file in a specific format into an object. The format is basically a map, and specifies valid values for some of the keys, and valid types ...
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How do I use an Apache 2.0 licensed library in my commercial Android app? [duplicate]
I am using a library which is licensed under Apache 2.0 in my commercial Android app. I took a look on the Apache license FAQ on the official Apache homepage (https://apache.org/foundation/license-faq....
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Read Only Generic data access layer Best practice
I am trying to write some art of "generic" data access library to access the data of my company's ERP Software, which is our main/core application where all our related data is managed.
I am a ...
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Should I use value objects creating them via factory method and have only getters or just write DTO's with constructor and getters/setters?
I've been using the APIs of a ticketing service which returns arrays of data more or less complex based on the entrypoint called. In order to simplify my life when consuming such API I wrote some ...
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What is the differnce between an API and a library? [closed]
I have a created a Java project. My project is a collection of classes that allow a programmer to manage local networks (create network, delete network-access to device, get information of SSID) and ...
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(System) Hooks for embedded libraries
With the inability to go into to much detail, imagine the following situation:
You are developing a library that needs to run on various embedded platforms (AVR, ARM, etc..). Some functionality of ...
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Understanding application licenses when using third party libraries in an android project
I'm developing an app for the 2nd time but it's the first time i'm using third party libraries in my application. One of the libraries seems to have an MIT license and the other is the android ...
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Limiting Code in Debug Code Delivered to Customer
I am designing some software that will be delivered to a customer with some limited areas that they can customize using the same platform and compiler (Windows 10, Visual Studio 2017). My goal is to ...
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How has Windows maintained binary compatibility for over 20 years? [closed]
Modern Windows 10 can run binaries that were compiled on 20 years ago for Windows 95 or NT4, however I imagine that the libraries that the code is calling would have changed massively since then.
I ...
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Should code be written to stay consistent with the unidiomatic API style of a library?
I'm currently using the wxPython library to construct a GUI. One interesting aspect of the library I've noticed is that it uses CamelCase notation to write method names, as opposed to the snake_case ...
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What is actually the difference between the GNU C Library and the C standard Library?
I sometimes see these two terms be used interchangeably.
What is the actual difference between these two terms? How are they used differently? Are there any other alternatives to these two libraries?
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How to choose between a library and shared project?
I am working on a set of .NET Core 2.0 Microservices together with some other developers. I wrote some code to add my own custom logging as described here. My logger sends the logging messages to an ...
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Is it possible to create a C header file from a dynamic library?
Suppose I have a compiled dynamic library: .dll, .lib, .so etc. Is it (theoretically) possible to automatically create C header file for such a library? Is there an existing tool that does that?
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Why does clock() function in C from <time.h> header only returns clock ticks in increments of 10's of thousands?
I am curious to know why does the function clock() only returns values in increments of 10,000 and is not able to return values in between.
I have the following code:
#include<iostream>
#...
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Why do many “popular” C++ libraries have a small number of stars on Github? [closed]
For example a CSV parsing library looks to be the most popular CSV parsing library, yet it only has 301 stars.
C++ is one of the most popular languages yet C++ libraries on github do not look to be ...
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Should a REST API wrapper validate inputs before making a request?
Suppose that the server restricts a JSON field to an enumerated set of values.
e.g. a POST request to /user expects an object with a field called gender that should only be "male", "female" or "n/a".
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Why do we have to include multiple header files for a single library (the C standard library)?
I am not sure why there are so many header file for the C standard library (stdio.h, stdlib.h, math.h).
How do these header files point to the same library?
I guess I am a little bit confused about ...
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Proper way of throwing errors in a JavaScript library?
Let's say I am writing a simple library in JavaScript, with only a few functions:
Calculate the factorial of a positive natural number
Find the least common multiple from an array of integers
And so ...
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Is it possible to ship libraries with code?
Is there any way to safely include libraries (either internal or external) in the directory of a project (say in a lib/ folder) when you ship or release code? As far as I can see it would be a lot ...
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Why develop internal libraries for internal applications?
I'm having difficulty understanding why you should develop internal libraries to be used exclusively for developing internal applications. I appreciate that if I want to use software that someone ...
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Is there an interface definition language for software libraries?
Suppose I am writing a C++ library that I intend to distribute in binary form, with interfaces from other languages (e.g. Python). The 'easy' approach of just compiling the library and distributing ...
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Pros and cons of different ways to create objects in Javascript [closed]
Context
I am writing a JavaScript library, and I am finding that I don't know what the best way to support object creation. I came up with a list things that I am considering:
var obj = Library....
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Common libraries in build chain
Like many (most ?) people, we have multiple "common" libraries managing various things (business objects, utilities, external libraries...) for multiple projects (web service, admin/users site, ...
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Best way to design a class interface passed to library/plugin
I have an application comprising a bootstrapper executable, a core library and several plugins (shared libraries). The core library is implicitely linked to all components, the plugins get linked/...
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Boundaries of unit testing between my code and a library or sub-component
Background: I am new to testing in general, and have been studying it in context of JavaScript, specifically React.js, front-end development (actually new to this as well). For the question, I have ...
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How to provide Java libraries internally?
In my small team we write applications that run as a Jenkins job and using the SOAP API of our Bug Tracker, our ALM software. They are accessed with Java however I think developers using other ...
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Naming collections of helper methods, and avoiding meaningless jargon words
While coding anything remotely useful, I inevitably find myself wanting to add methods to perform smaller bits and pieces. (It could be a method to return everything in a string to the left of the ...
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How do microservices make it easier to avoid overly-tight coupling between components?
I read in this article about microservice architecture by M. Fowler:
Another consequence of using services as components is a more explicit
component interface. Most languages do not have a good ...
