On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Arthur Edelstein <arthuredelst...@gmail.com> wrote: > I hope so, too, but very often this doesn't happen in practice. Much > useful code is not maintained.
My position on free open source software is that if it's that useful to someone, then that someone has at least some obligation to contribute back to the community somehow. In the case of useful software with no active maintainer, that contribution can sometimes be the path to becoming the new maintainer :) > If I add a dependency from Clojars or maven central to my project.clj > file, I don't want to pay the tax of deciding what Clojure version it > is and whether it is actively maintained With all due respect, I think that's an unreasonable expectation: this is free open source software we're talking about, created and maintained by the community at large. Figuring out those things is the tax you generally have to pay with free open source software. When you're selecting a library to solve a particular problem, you normally have to do some research and evaluate more than one library so, for me, the activity of the project and software versions supported are part of that necessary research. I can't imagine "just using" some random library without doing some legwork...? Phil's suggestion of adding metadata to Clojars might help - but of course for libraries not being actively maintained, there will be no metadata because there will be no one to update it and for libraries that are actively maintained, they'll likely support both Clojure 1.2.x and Clojure 1.3.0 fairly soon anyway... -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
