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And you'll end up with the complexity of dependencies with mismatched and/or incompatible versions. Adding a dependency explicitly to the source code is the ultimate, albeit somewhat inefficient, solution which is often useful. In Python, for example, BeautifulSoup has long recommended this practice.

See also the SQLite amalgamation for another example of a single-file deployment: http://www.sqlite.org/amalgamation.html



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