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vendoring

vendoring is the present participle and gerund of vendor.

Meaning of vendor

Verb

vendor (third-person singular simple present vendors, present participle vendoring, simple past and past participle vendored)

  1. (transitive) To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program.
    • I distributed my application with a vendored copy of Perl so that it wouldn't use the system copies of Perl where it is installed.
  2. (transitive) As the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program.
    • Strawberry Perl contains vendored copies of some CPAN modules, designed to allow them to run on Windows.

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Questions about vendoring

What is vendoring the present participle and gerund of?
Vendoring is the present participle and gerund of vendor.

Words near vendoring in the dictionary

  1. vendor's lien
  2. vendor's liens
  3. vendor-agnostic
  4. vendor-agnostics
  5. vendored
  6. vendoring
  7. vendors
  8. vendors' liens
  9. vendorship
  10. vendorships
  11. vendorspeak

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