Re: Quantity of Downloads vs Requires
Yep, it's a long-standing problem that, seemingly, many others (19,000?) don't care about one jot. That's the way of the Web though.
The other major dependency that everyone takes totally for granted is the web browser. We're able to wake up one morning to find that Google (or whoever) has taken it upon themselves to change something about How The Web Works, pushed out a Chrome (or whichever) update, and broken a ton of stuff. That's not really an ideal situation either... Ok, so Google and the other browser publishers generally don't do it overnight (there's betas, announcements, press releases, etc), but Google seem to have a not wholly collegiate approach to it; they do whatever suits Google.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
