Dropbox, Inc.
Advanced packaging techniques for improving work flows

Abstract:

Source code of a logical segment of a codebase can be isolated from other portions of the codebase yet the logical segment and the other portions may have mutual dependencies. Packaging multiple versions of the logical segment and the other portions of the codebase to be compilable as a single binary file can simplify the development, testing, and release work flows of the codebase. For example, development, evaluation, and deployment of the logical segment and the other portions of the code base can run on different schedules. As another example, a provider of the codebase can control which version of the logical segment computing devices execute.