Could rust do with a crates.io alternative? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/rust@programming.dev

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To me, the two major problems are:

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.

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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[-] smorks@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] anlumo@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago

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

[-] smorks@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

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

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Not sure how that's an alternative as there's no way to add anything to it. It seems more like an aggregator that a registry.

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