Dependency Avoidance
on 01.24.06, 03:22pm in software • comments (1)
[Jeff Atwood] I’m not against dependencies. Everything software developers do is one giant string of dependencies. I’m a pragmatist. Strive to make your dependency stack as small as you possibly can.
Jeff has a good post on avoiding dependencies in your software. It’s another reason why I also claim the registry = evil - why have machine dependency when you don’t have to.
gdkzen (January 24, 2006 @ 3:58 pm)
With all the crap the registry is supposed to take care of, it still can’t tell me if I’m about to uninstall a DLL that I need. All it says is “YOU MIGHT NEED THIS”. Thanks alot.
The uninstaller icon should be a picture of a woman reading tea leaves. It has the same degree of accuracy about your future as the uninstall script’s dependency on the registry.