Author here. I'd love to have you read the two links I refer to at the top of my post. They articulate why it's a bad thing. Incidentally, version locking ever

Author here. I'd love to have you read the two links I refer to at the top of my post. They articulate why it's a bad thing. Incidentally, version locking every dependency is identical to just inlining every dependency in the repo. And I actually like this approach a lot. See my example of "exemplary library use" at http://arclanguage.org/item?id=20221 http://arclanguage.org/item?id=20221. OP was an attempt to reconcile my priorities with the mainstream.