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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