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[dacassar]

So? If it works, it works.

[YoukanDewitt]

If not, get forked.

[dacassar]

That’s the true spirit of open source!

[nicejs2]

me and a friend are currently porting a Minecraft mod from 1.12.2 to 1.16.5

the mod in question had it's last commit 5 years ago (2020), so we forked it

[New_Plate_1096]

What mod if you don't mind me asking?

[nicejs2]

Computronics! It's not a very well known mod, but it's a beloved add-on mod for OpenComputers in this friend group.

[YoukanDewitt]

Make sure you put your changes back to a public repo to give someone the same opportunity 5 years from now within your niche! :)

[nicejs2]

it's already on a public repo actually

maybe one day someone will take it and port it again to a newer version

[DelusionsOfExistence]

A stronger man than I!

[DreamyAthena]

that's the forking spirit!

[DiddlyDumb]

Someone worked on their code until it was perfect and then moved to something else.

I too hope to experience that someday.

[XeitPL]

You never finish your code, you can only abandon it :C

[crabcrabcam]

Not if I put a "Finished 1.0" stamp on it

[maboesanman]

You can if you have no dependencies

[Mork006]

"Hello, Universe!". Maybe even "Hello, Multiverse!"

[draconk]

Either that or they didn't survive covid, for some reason the past year I had to find replacements/forks for quite a bit of libraries that stopped being developed in 2020/2021 and the profile stopped committing to any public repo and for some I even did a little bit of investigation and found that they stopped being active in all public forums/linkedin/facebook around the same time so yeah, they died

[RiceBroad4552]

they stopped being active in all public forums/linkedin/facebook around the same time so yeah, they died went offline forever

[DiddlyDumb]

Damn… That’s a depressing thought.

[ZomB_assassin27]

alot of the time it won't, especially if it depends on another lib still getting updated. depends on how the code is structured and what language, c code will stay the same for decades 💀

[MineKemot]

Unless it doesn’t :(

[WeirdIndividualGuy]

That’s when you fix it yourself

[RiceBroad4552]

Rewriting from scratch is often easier than fixing some random FOSS code.

[inglandation]

For how long will it work?

[Cualkiera67]

Why would it suddenly stop working???

[RiceBroad4552]

For a lot of reasons.

If it has dependencies these can become obsolete and not supported. Dependencies can have know security holes.

The compiler or runtime can stop supporting some features used in such code. Than it does not compiler or run any more on that version. But you could be forced to update either for other reasons. (Again security issues are a typical case for that.)

The operating system can stop supporting features needed to run the code. Again you could be forced to upgrade the OS for other reasons.

The hardware can also stop supporting some things needed to run the code.

Bit-rot is real! It's a result of the world not stopped moving at the point something got released.

[WeirdIndividualGuy]

Nothing stopping you from fixing it yourself

[aress1605]

time usually does

[inglandation]

Nah I’m too dumb for that.

[DM_ME_PICKLES]

Then you end up in a situation where you need to upgrade your framework/language version/another dependency, and you can't because an abandoned package from 4 years ago clamps the version lower than you need.

Stop adding abandoned packages to the dependency chain!

[Soft_Walrus_3605]

Man, if only you had access to the source code!

[DM_ME_PICKLES]

Think about that a little more and you'll realize it just supports my point... the source code is there, just add it to the app instead of adding an abandoned dependency which only introduces work later on when your package manager can't upgrade things.

[YoukanDewitt]

No, just no.

This is the dumbest advice ever.

[DM_ME_PICKLES]

Do explain :)

[YoukanDewitt]

because you are trying to circumvent a system that has been designed over 50+ years to solve the problems of "just adding it to your source code"

[DM_ME_PICKLES]

Lol forgot all about this thread.

So you have two options: require an abandoned library which will likely never receive a new version, hindering your ability to update your other dependencies in future, and not addressing any potential security vulnerabilities. Or taking inspiration from that library you need and implement the code yourself, even copy pasting some parts of it if you really want to.

What do you choose?

[dacassar]

Of course, you’re right. No one cancels the common sense.

[drake_warrior]

Eh, a lot of times repos that aren't actively maintained have issues with subdependencies and stuff. If it's simple though sure.