longitudinal study of package repositories per https://deps.dev/_/stats

Utils:

get_package_stats.py

get_package_stats.py compute the total number of dependents

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Version 2.9.0: 885 dependents
Version 2.9.1: 1170 dependents
Version 3.0.0-alpha1: 79 dependents
Version 3.0.0-beta1: 32 dependents
Version 3.0.0-beta2: 188 dependents
Total unique dependents for org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api: 15378

extract-history.sh

go over each past commit and copy version of stats.json at that commit in directory history

create-graph.py

Create line charts for number of dependencies over time

Absolute Growth (deps.dev data)

Something happened in NPM counting

Relative Growth (deps.dev data)

Max derivative is Cargo