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Can somebody explain the technical accomplishment here? What's new about this? Github already hosts source. What do they mean by "package"? Is it just source? I

• seaish 8y ago
  With the npm example, you can tell npm to use github's package repo instead of npmjs.com, and install from or publish to that one instead. Basically another npm, but the same command line app.
  • tantalor 8y ago
    Why is that useful?
    • ht85 8y ago
      One use is that you can point to any commit, but npm will only have versions that were explicitly released to it. Another reason would be having a few private packages and not wanting to manage an entire npm account for them.
• ht85 8y ago
  Packages are different. For npm, you might publish your source 1:1 if you have a very vanilla setup, but a typical package in npm contains a built version of the code while the repo contains source, documentation, tooling, etc. Package versions are also created explicitly and tend to contain many changes, whereas repos are commit/branch based.