> It could very well be there are older alternative libs that are better
The libyear metric doesn't count when the dependency was last updated by the maintainer. Its a diff of the version you're currently using compared to the latest release, to tell you how out of date your current dependencies are.
Its pretty much a dependency drift fitness function (https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/dependency-dri...). Some of the variants on this page do support alternate metrics, like the ruby and node versions which can calculate number of releases behind rather than time.
The libyear metric doesn't count when the dependency was last updated by the maintainer. Its a diff of the version you're currently using compared to the latest release, to tell you how out of date your current dependencies are.
Its pretty much a dependency drift fitness function (https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/dependency-dri...). Some of the variants on this page do support alternate metrics, like the ruby and node versions which can calculate number of releases behind rather than time.