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by fiddlerwoaroof 975 days ago
There’s also no onus on me to continue using packages that force me to spend valuable time fixing their breaking changes. My rule of thumb for dependencies is that, once I have to fix three or four breaking changes, the cost of switching to a more stable alternative or writing my own becomes more worth it.

There’s also the option of releasing a package called something like flask2_compatibility that monkeypatches flask3 to work with flask2

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> There’s also no onus on me to continue using packages that force me to spend valuable time fixing their breaking changes.

Exactly.