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/ˈvɛn.də/ · ven.dor
noun
- A person or a company that sells goods or services. The vendor at the market sold fresh produce to the locals.
- A vending machine. The vending machine in the office dispensed snacks and drinks.
verb
- 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.
- 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.
Did you know? The term 'vendor' has become increasingly important in the software industry, where companies often vend their own modified versions of dependencies to ensure compatibility and security.