如何使用非git存储库作为git项目的依赖项？

Question

I have a project on GitHub that uses ncurses. How would I add ncurses as a dependency, seeing as the ncurses source code doesn't have an official repository on GitHub? The source code is in the form of gzip tar of course.

Answer 1

If you really needed source dependencies to ncurses, you can find mirrors on GitHub.
For instance, https://github.com/mirror/ncurses .

The best practice would be to declare a binary dependency, or, as suggesting, simply checking if ncurses is installed:

• at least a script, like ls -la /usr/include/ncurses.h
• or a configure.ac , which is then used by automake to generate a Makefile .