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Because it takes time to write a paper and publish it. And researchers usually don't care about code so the version used when starting the project is never upgr
by gwervc 3y ago
Because it takes time to write a paper and publish it. And researchers usually don't care about code so the version used when starting the project is never upgraded.
- speedgoose 3y agoNever upgrading the dependencies is not specific to research. For example the npm installations of react show that old versions are still downloaded a lot in the last 7 days: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react?activeTab=versions https://www.npmjs.com/package/react?activeTab=versions jQuery on a random CDN with stats also shows that many websites are likely never going to update it: https://www.jsdelivr.com/package/npm/jquery?tab=stats https://www.jsdelivr.com/package/npm/jquery?tab=stats You also sees that with system administrators: here is curl on debian from people who shares about it: https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=curl&show_installed=on&show_old=on&show_recent=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=curl&show_in...