On 5/10/14, 1:15 PM, Edward Kmett wrote:

I just want to say that I personally find this thread an the the similar "sky is falling" discussion about Lennart being on vacation for 2 weeks to be alarming and far far too hasty.

A huge +1 to all of this.

The worst/best thing about maintaining packages that people care about is that people expect because you've done work they rely on, you have committed to be on-call tech support.

I understand that Max did a bunch of very important work, then became occupied with other things in the world. And in the long term, that needs to be sorted out. But in the short term, a four-day-notice policy is silly. And furthermore, even though there's nothing _wrong_ with forking promiscuously, it tends to create a mess, to no good end.

Finally, I want to note that it is worthwhile to go and read the code of the temporary package. It fits in less than a page, and consists of a few functions that, while somewhat subtle, are each "conceptually" one-liners and only in fact take four or so normal sized lines of code.

Clearly, the easier path, if that library breaks on you, is to copy and paste the relevant functionality.

For all the concerns about package stability, we should also perhaps recognize that introducing new dependencies in your own code will also always carry a cost, and sometimes the easiest thing is just to not introduce that dependency.

--Gershom

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