I know the discussion revolves around the amount of dependencies, but I want to add a comment about semver, which has a part in this mess: In my opinion it wil

I know the discussion revolves around the amount of dependencies, but I want to add a comment about semver, which has a part in this mess: In my opinion it will not be done right in 80% of cases. Every breaking change requires updating the major versions, but developer are hesitating to go from 1.0.0 to 6.0.0 in a month. The way out is staying in the 0.x range therefore abandoning semver alltogether. A nice write up about how packages are not following semver in java-land: http://avandeursen.com/2014/10/09/semantic-versioning-in-maven-central-breaking-changes/ http://avandeursen.com/2014/10/09/semantic-versioning-in-mav...