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Re:Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need... by atoav on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @01:50AM (#32991912)
I mean it depends on the kind of project right? What would be catastrophic for a web framework could be totally normal for a command line tool. I mean when was the last commit to some of the GNU utils we use every day? If your module provides math functions or implements some protocoll chances are those underlying things are not going to change etc.

I use a ton of tools I wrote myself and haven't had to touch in years except for the occasional dependency update.

Re:Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need... by vbezhenar on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @02:57AM (#32992253)
> when was the last commit to some of the GNU utils we use every day?

17 hours ago: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commits/master

Re:Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need... by atoav on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @04:01AM (#32992672)
Sure, because the repo contains a ton of tools. Yet another advantage of the monorepo: if everything is in one repo nobody will notice that you haven't touched that one part of the code since you wrote it.

Or let's phrase it differently: there will always be a part of the code that you do not have to touch for decades if all goes well. And if that part sits in a seperate repo, is it abandoned or just finished?