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Re:Most open-source software is libraries or frameworks by Randgalt on Sunday July 23, 2017 @09:09PM (#14835274)
You're right of course. I'm the main author of Apache Curator. While it does have a mirror on Github it's mostly consumed via its Maven Central repo. The Maven Central repo is most likely a better source of open source project usage.
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Re:Most open-source software is libraries or frameworks by SwellJoe on Sunday July 23, 2017 @10:07PM (#14835431)
Here's how amazingly wide and diverse our OSS world is: I have never even heard of Maven Central.
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Re:Most open-source software is libraries or frameworks by Randgalt on Monday July 24, 2017 @01:16AM (#14836036)
Maybe not - but some tool that you use probably gets it artifacts from it. http://search.maven.org - https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Maven-central-repository
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Re:Most open-source software is libraries or frameworks by SwellJoe on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:43AM (#14836566)
I'm not saying me having never heard of it makes it less relevant, popular, etc. I'm saying OSS has become so widespread that an entire ecosystem, seemingly with thousands of packages, can exist completely out of my awareness, despite me being involved in OSS for a couple of decades and having much broader (though often not deeper) interests than most, due to my work.

In defense of my ignorance, I haven't written a line of Java in years, and I assume this is a predominantly Java ecosystem (due to the "Maven" part of the name).

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Re:Most open-source software is libraries or frameworks by Randgalt on Monday July 24, 2017 @10:14AM (#14838619)
Yeah that's true. Think of the npm ecosystem, the burgeoning Go ecosystem, etc. All full worlds with their own repos, etc.
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