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It's sad to see someone behave so poorly over something like this. But I can't blame his anger for "breaking the Internet." The blame for that goes squarely on
by striking 11y ago
It's sad to see someone behave so poorly over something like this.
But I can't blame his anger for "breaking the Internet." The blame for that goes squarely on npm, who allow unpublishing of modules.
What if you... couldn't do that?
- debacle 11y agoMost other packaging systems use an owner/name model for package naming, which would have prevented the entire debacle.
- striking 11y agoReally? Which ones? I've only every worked with ones that allow you to register particular names, except for Vim and how it downloads packages from GitHub.
- ocdtrekkie 11y agoI know Meteor pushed all of their package management to a namespaced system: https://atmospherejs.com/ https://atmospherejs.com/
- aporetics 11y agodockerhub images