Intertwining Communities: Exploring Libraries that Cross Software Ecosystems
Using libraries in applications have helped developers to reduce the costs of reinventing already existing code. However, an increase in diverse technology stacks and third-party library usage has led developers to inevitably switch technologies, and also search for similar libraries implemented in the new technology. To assist with searching for these replacement libraries, maintainers have started to release their libraries to multiple ecosystems. Our goal is to explore the extent to which these libraries are intertwined between ecosystems. We perform a large-scale empirical study of 1.1 million libraries from five different software ecosystems, i.e., PyPI, CRAN, Maven, RubyGems, and NPM, to identify 4,146 GitHub repositories. As a starting point, insights from the study raise implications for library maintainers, users, contributors, and researchers into understanding how these different ecosystems are becoming more intertwined with each other.
Tue 16 MayDisplayed time zone: Hobart change
11:50 - 12:35 | Software Libraries & EcosystemsTechnical Papers / Industry Track / Data and Tool Showcase Track at Meeting Room 110 Chair(s): Mehdi Keshani Delft University of Technology | ||
11:50 12mTalk | A Large Scale Analysis of Semantic Versioning in NPM Technical Papers Donald Pinckney Northeastern University, Federico Cassano Northeastern University, Arjun Guha Northeastern University and Roblox Research, Jonathan Bell Northeastern University Pre-print | ||
12:02 12mTalk | Phylogenetic Analysis of Reticulate Software Evolution Technical Papers Akira Mori National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan, Masatomo Hashimoto Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan | ||
12:14 6mTalk | PyMigBench: A Benchmark for Python Library Migration Data and Tool Showcase Track Mohayeminul Islam University of Alberta, Ajay Jha North Dakota State University, Sarah Nadi University of Alberta, Ildar Akhmetov University of Alberta Pre-print | ||
12:20 6mTalk | Determining Open Source Project Boundaries Industry Track Sophia Vargas Google | ||
12:26 6mTalk | Intertwining Communities: Exploring Libraries that Cross Software Ecosystems Technical Papers Kanchanok Kannee Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Raula Gaikovina Kula Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Kenichi Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology Pre-print |