It really is a joy to see a library just work once you’ve symlinked the source checkout to some library directory. No need to run make. Nothing to build. No waiting impatiently. No linking and rebuilding. Just checkout and use.

When you couple this will a module system that is intelligently based on directories (for the most part) - and a easily modifiable library path, you get easy quick dependency management.

And add to that a revision control system that with a simple and elegant design that supports versioned dependency management.


What you end up with is a way to contain applications and their dependencies with ease.




Actors:
- python, the site module, and now featuring ctypes
- git, submodules, and the hub