Don't just vendor - rebuild the ecosystem and persuade the vendor to work on software management ...

Posted Jan 30, 2025 16:12 UTC (Thu) by bluca (subscriber, #118303)
In reply to: Don't just vendor - rebuild the ecosystem and persuade the vendor to work on software management ... by Wol
Parent article: Vendoring Go packages by default in Fedora

Breaking compatibility in public APIs affects all languages and ecosystems. What changes is just who pays the cost. Making sure it's not _developers_ who pay the cost of _developers_ breaking compat doesn't mean it's free.