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PVAC: Package Version Activity Categorizer, Leveraging Semantic Versioning in a Heterogeneous System
Context: Modern open-source software ecosystems, such as those managed by GNU/Linux distributions, are composed of numerous packages developed independently by diverse communities. These ecosystems employ package management tools to facilitate software installation and dependency resolution. However, these tools lack robust mechanisms for systematically evaluating the development activity and versioning dynamics within their heterogeneous software environments. Objective: This research aims to …

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Solving Package Management via Hypergraph Dependency Resolution
Ryan Gibb, Patrick Ferris, David Allsopp, Michael Winston Dales, Mark Elvers, Thomas Gazagnaire, Sadiq Jaffer, Thomas Leonard, Jon Ludlam, Anil Madhavapeddy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10803

Solving Package Management via Hypergraph Dependency Resolution
Package managers are everywhere, with seemingly every language and operating system implementing their own solution. The lack of interoperability between these systems means that multi-lingual projects are unable to express precise dependencies across language ecosystems, and external system and hardware dependencies are typically implicit and unversioned. We define HyperRes, a formal system for describing versioned dependency resolution using a hypergraph that is expressive enough to model man…

Signal-First Architectures: Rethinking Front-End Reactivity
Shrinivass Arunachalam Balasubramanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13815 https://

Signal-First Architectures: Rethinking Front-End Reactivity
Modern front-end frameworks face escalating reactivity management challenges, including performance degradation from complex observable chains and unpredictable re-renders. This paper introduces Signal-First Architecture--a novel paradigm where granular, dependency-tracked signals are the atomic unit of reactivity. Unlike traditional RxJS or NgRx patterns, Signal-First enforces reactive flows from explicit signal declarations, with derived values via computed() and side effects scoped to effect…