I was doing website maintenance and checked for outdated dependencies with composer outdated. I usually filter with -D for checking direct dependencies and -p for packages with patch releases. These are typically easy pickings.

Well, it's official. My Drupal Lenient Composer Plugin has allowed the lenient Composer repository endpoint on Drupal.org to be sunset and removed.

Developers have many tools. We have version control systems, we have dependency management tools, we have build and task automation tools. What is one thing they all have in common? They are command line tools.

Drupal Commerce was started without writing any Drupal code. Our libraries set Drupal Commerce off the island before Drupal was able to support using third party library not provided by core.