A fundamental problem of modern package systems is that if you find a bug in a submodule of one the modules you are using...
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you must create pull requests up the dependency chain: this is an n-times social problem. An unexpected high cost to the ecosystem.
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@sebinsua isn't this a limitation of git submodules only? All the actual package systems I know are based on package versions instead.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@frosas As you said, http://semver.org is a good answer. (But it doesn't seem definitive. Deep dependencies are a dangerous road.)
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