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Could rust do with a crates.io alternative? (programming.dev)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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To me, the two major problems are:

  1. no namespaces

Someone uploads "serde2"? that's blocked forever. Someone uploads a typo version of a popular package? Too bad for you, learn how to type.

  1. the github connection

If you want to contribute to crates.io you're bound to github. No gitlab, codeberg, gitee, sourcehut, etc.

Not sure if there are any other problems, but those two seem like the biggest things and #1 is AFAIK not something they ever want to change + it would be difficult to as one would need a migration strategy.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

there's https://lib.rs/, never actually used it myself, but it calls itself an alternative to crates.io

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That’s just for the web-based UI, not the database behind it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

ah ok, so i'm assuming it doesn't fix either of the issues listed then. thanks.

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