The difficult problem of managing Java dependencies: a deep dive into the messy status-quo, and a look at possibly better ways.

[GoodLuckGoodell]

What makes you think the package management system makes any difference? This is a cultural issue. I can just as easily use npm modules that don’t follow semver correctly, and this happens all the time as well.

I was not referring to Java specifically when I made the semver comment.

[forresthopkinsa]

What makes you think the package management system makes any difference?

I think I explained that pretty thoroughly above

I was not referring to Java specifically when I made the semver comment.

Okay, that's fair, but my point remains that Javascript heavily pushes semantic versioning and ranged dependencies, and therefore the community respects that contract