When is it (not) appropriate to bundle dependencies with an application?

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Summary

I recently had a conversation with the creator of a framework that one of my applications depends on. During that conversation he mentioned as

Answer 1

Beware reproducing the classic Windows DLL hell. By all means minimize the number of dependencies: ideally, just depend on your language and its framework, nothing else, if you can.

After all, preserving hard disk space is hardly the objective any more, so users need not care about having multiple copies. Also, unless you have a minuscule number of users, be sure to take the onus of packaging on yourself rather than requiring them to obtain all dependencies!