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> escrowing Are you sure this is what you mean? Escrow is a type of contactual arrangement, one type of which is agreeing with a commercial partner that you ge

> escrowing Are you sure this is what you mean? Escrow is a type of contactual arrangement, one type of which is agreeing with a commercial partner that you get a copy of their source-code if they go broke. I feel like you mean vendoring.

tmountain 4y ago
Maybe I’m old fashioned, but we used to call this mirroring.
- phillc73 4y ago
  Mirroring is the best way. Do it before a service is shuttered, which we used to call "closed".
richardwhiuk 4y ago
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- account42 4y ago
  "Vendoring" is a term of art that is used to describe incorporating third party dependencies into your (source code) repository. While not a perfect fit it seems close enough - closer than escrowing where typically a third party that has no immediate use for the artifict is the one holding it.
- jacobr1 4y ago
  Things become a word when there is a critical mass of people that use the word. In this case vending initially refereed to placing a copy of the source code of the third party library into /vendor/ subdirectory, thus "vendoring" it. It has since been extended to similar use cases and has become part of the software developer jargon.
- crdrost 4y ago
  Maybe this is just me being a physicist, but I would have trouble applying the notion of escrow to anything that does not obey a law of conservation... “Put that idea in escrow”—I assume I have to write it down first? “Put our incrementing page view count in escrow”—uh...? “Put my time in escrow”—how on earth am I going to get it back? Similarly “escrowing your software dependencies”, hard to interpret if I didn't know the context. Whereas “vendoring” is similarly opaque but immediately recognizable as jargon and has made it into tools (`go mod vendor` and `deno vendor` for example).
- mindcrime 4y ago
  "Vendoring" is 100% a word. It may not be in the OED or MW, but those things are descriptive, not prescriptive. Words become words when they are used as words, and "vendoring" is used as such. See: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vendoring https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vendoring https://www.google.com/search?q=vendoring https://www.google.com/search?q=vendoring
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tmountain 4y ago

Maybe I’m old fashioned, but we used to call this mirroring.

phillc73 4y ago
Mirroring is the best way. Do it before a service is shuttered, which we used to call "closed".

richardwhiuk 4y ago

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account42 4y ago
"Vendoring" is a term of art that is used to describe incorporating third party dependencies into your (source code) repository. While not a perfect fit it seems close enough - closer than escrowing where typically a third party that has no immediate use for the artifict is the one holding it.
jacobr1 4y ago
Things become a word when there is a critical mass of people that use the word. In this case vending initially refereed to placing a copy of the source code of the third party library into /vendor/ subdirectory, thus "vendoring" it. It has since been extended to similar use cases and has become part of the software developer jargon.
crdrost 4y ago
Maybe this is just me being a physicist, but I would have trouble applying the notion of escrow to anything that does not obey a law of conservation... “Put that idea in escrow”—I assume I have to write it down first? “Put our incrementing page view count in escrow”—uh...? “Put my time in escrow”—how on earth am I going to get it back? Similarly “escrowing your software dependencies”, hard to interpret if I didn't know the context. Whereas “vendoring” is similarly opaque but immediately recognizable as jargon and has made it into tools (`go mod vendor` and `deno vendor` for example).
mindcrime 4y ago
"Vendoring" is 100% a word. It may not be in the OED or MW, but those things are descriptive, not prescriptive. Words become words when they are used as words, and "vendoring" is used as such. See: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vendoring https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vendoring https://www.google.com/search?q=vendoring https://www.google.com/search?q=vendoring
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