The baby and the bathwater

[dalibor topic]

On 28.03.2018 11:39, Cédric Champeau wrote:

> It's not about not living in the real world or not. It's about the horrible
> truth of the hundreds of modules published on Maven Central that use
> hundreds of different conventions, both in versioning or publishing.

A tangentially relevant paper in this context is 
http://homepages.dcc.ufmg.br/~mtov/pub/2017-saner-breaking-apis.pdf .

Quoting from the abstract:

"Our large scale analysis on 317 real-world Java libraries, 9K releases, 
and 260K client applications shows that (i) 14.78% of the API changes
break compatibility with previous versions, (ii) the frequency of
breaking changes increases over time, (iii) 2.54% of their clients
are impacted, and (iv) systems with higher frequency of breaking
changes are larger, more popular, and more active"

cheers,
dalibor topic
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