Difference between dependency and package managers?
问题 Practically speaking, are these essentially synonymous? Or is there something I'm missing? I've use Composer (PHP), CocoaPods (Objective-C), and Bundler (Rails). I believe they describe themselves as dependency managers but can they also be consider as package mangers? 回答1: I'd say yes. Given that the javascript community calls their version of those tools (NPM and bower) " package managers ", I think that the development community has essentially synonymized those terms. EDIT I'm going to