> So if a security fix is coming in 3 major releases later, you have a lot
more work to catch up.

I find that there is an overhead, at least mentally, for going into code to
make a change.  So for me it is faster to make three changes at once than
make one change three times.  So it is actually less work to catch up;

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Benjamin Pasero <[email protected]
> wrote:

> With Apache I feel there is a process around releases and I expect a
> higher quality from official Apache libraries compared to some little node
> module that I found somewhere and is not maintained for months and even
> buggy.
>
> As for not updating unless needed: The longer you wait to update the more
> changes will come in. So if a security fix is coming in 3 major releases
> later, you have a lot more work to catch up.
>
> And yes, its odd that some versions of packages are no longer available
> through NPM at some point in time...
>
> On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 6:25:30 PM UTC+2, Mark Hahn wrote:
>>
>> > Are people just updating to latest modules without reviewing the
>> changes?
>>
>> I never upgrade unless I find a bug or need a new feature.  Things are
>> more stable that way.
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Brian Lalor <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Aug 14, 2013, at 2:18 AM, Benjamin Pasero <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I am actually missing good old Apache style libraries I guess from my
>>> Java times.
>>>
>>> How is npm any different in this regard?  With Java projects, presumably
>>> you're using a sane dependency management system like Maven or Ivy that
>>> takes care of resolving transitive dependencies.  You still list out the
>>> dependencies *your* project has (in pom.xml or package.json) and the
>>> dependency resolution mechanism takes care of pulling in the rest.  You
>>> still have to be aware of the changes being introduced by the dependency
>>> chain, except that with npm a transitive dependency will only impact the
>>> library that required it (thanks to the snazzy nested node_modules folders).
>>>
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