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Why the oldest possible?
by t0astbread 7y ago
Why the oldest possible?
- jessaustin 7y agoThread hypothesis is that we want to avoid breakage due to automatic dependency updates. So, don't update dependencies automatically. Now sure, if you tell the tool to update a particular dep, it will force second- and higher-order deps to update to compatible versions. It will always use the oldest compatible version, so nothing will get broken in surprising fashion. This seems strange to people who've used mostly npm and node, but tools for other languages have this policy.
- t0astbread 7y agoI see. I've never heard of that before, thanks for sharing!