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> There is no single answer to all of this, because it's too complex to boil down to a single number.

Having a single number that is a rough measure is still useful, though perhaps a (weighted?) average would be more useful.

Anyway, I just downloaded the Python tool (called "libyear" on PyPI) and ran it to quite quickly find three dependencies on my project that were over 2 years behind. That was helpful and I would use it again.



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