Hello,
I am building a system that relies on a Basex backend, and for that I have chosen to use the TCP protocol. My system is built in managed code, so I went ahead and copied the code provided here: https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/tree/master/basex-api/src/main/c%23 which satisfied my needs very nicely. However, since I have not written this code myself, it is subject to expensive and time consuming pre-shipping legal audits where it is checked that the code does not contain references to other public domain code.
Engineers developing managed code today expect APIs to be shipped as Nuget packages. This has the advantages that it is extremely easy to uptake, you can regard it as a black box (but get the source if you need to), and it supports dependencies (none, in your case) and you can go back and use previously shipped versions (which is important in your case, since you have just changed the authentication scheme I believe). Could you consider offering the API as both Nugets and source on Github?
Best Regards
Peter Villadsen Principal Architect Microsoft Business Applications Group