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Can't believe the dev is made out to be the bad guy here. It may be a "few lines of trivial code" but it is still his code and he has the right to do whatever
by lovelearning 11y ago
Can't believe the dev is made out to be the bad guy here.
It may be a "few lines of trivial code" but it is still his code and he has the right to do whatever he wants with it. He tried the reasonable thing, NPM didn't oblige, he pulled the rug. Serves them right. If it's a few lines of "trivial code", then maybe big project Babel should stop using that "trivial code"?
And why does this yet-another-messenger-flash-in-the-pan app "Kik" get the right to mess up big projects just because they control 1 permutation of 2 letters of the English alphabet?
- bryanrasmussen 11y agoresponsible behavior is on a sliding scale, he had the rights to do this, but he could have been more responsible by first publishing a notice he was going to do it in a week, and even more responsible if he figured out the big projects using his code and sent them all an email ( but that would be a lot of work, hence the greater responsibility undertaken - I mean I sure wouldn't go through that trouble) Was he irresponsible? That seems a bit much, I think he was at responsibility level average - he did what he had the right to do and with good reason after NPM treated him badly and published a good document outlining the reasons, which I guess was helpful for people seeing why using NPM at all might actually be irresponsible. But he could have been more than responsibility level average.