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cs.SE2009
Strong Dependencies between Software Components
Pietro Abate, Jaap Boender, Roberto Di Cosmo +1
Component-based systems often describe context requirements in terms of explicit inter-component dependencies. Studying large instances of such systems?such as free and open source…
cs.SE2009★ 42 cited
Package upgrades in FOSS distributions: details and challenges
Roberto Di Cosmo, Stefano Zacchiroli, Paulo Trezentos
The upgrade problems faced by Free and Open Source Software distributions have characteristics not easily found elsewhere. We describe the structure of packages and their role in t…