Escaping From Dependency Hell
To understand the goals of and the reasons behind a package management tool for the .NET platform, it's worth considering how developers have been managing software dependencies so far. If you ever struggled updating a referenced assembly to a new version, or searched for documentation on a third-party library to perform a specific task, to find out such documentation did not exist, you have encountered dependency management issues. If you ever had a build failing or a runtime exception because of a reference collision, you have entered dependency hell.
Dependency hell is a term for the frustration of software users who have installed software packages which have dependencies on specific versions of other software ...
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