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There are other models. CPAN, for instance, has worked incredibly well for its audience for 25 years and counting. https://www.cpan.org https://www.cpan.org
by _jal 8y ago
There are other models. CPAN, for instance, has worked incredibly well for its audience for 25 years and counting.
https://www.cpan.org https://www.cpan.org
- the_duke 8y agoBut, unless I'm missing something, CPAN is a centralized registry, just like npm?
- y4mi 8y ago> The master CPAN site is hosted by Phyber in Los Angeles, Agreed. Maybe he meant the mirrors and how you could use them interchangeably? But that would be strange too, considering it's just as easy to create your own npm mirror as well
- _jal 8y agoI was more getting at the governance model. You didn't say this, but the direction of the discussion seemed to be that centralized metadata == for-profit.