My code depends on a library that makes liberal use of patching (replacing text in source code) for its own dependencies. I feel this is bad form, because, for example, that dependency may now conflict irreconcilably with another dependency of mine.
Am I right in thinking patching code is bad form?
This would depend on the language/ecosystem. It’s worse for C and C++ than for example Rust because of packaging policies and ease of distributability.
Hmmm, it’s C++