Things to keep in mind:
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Adding a dependency is non-trivial and will require fairly convincing arguments.
Further, ALL dependencies for ethers, must be MIT licensed or public domain (CC0).
All contributions to ethers are then included under the MIT license.
All source and documentation files should ONLY use the printable ASCII set.
This is for several reasons, bu...
- Transmission over certain HTTP servers and proxies can mangle UTF-8 data
- Certain editors on some platforms, or in certain terminals cannot handle UTF-8 characters elegantly
- The ability to enter non-ASCII characters on some platforms require special keyboards, input devices or input methods to be installed, which either not be supported, or may require administrative priviledges.
MIT...
A common argument to Pull Requests is that they are simple, backwards compatible and
It is important to remember that a small change is something that we are required to support in perpetuity.
For example, adding support for an obscure platform, such as adding a dot-file to the root of the package, now carries the implication that we will continue keeping that dot-file up-to-date as new versions of that platform are released.