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I think what the GP wanted to say was along the lines of "look at _better_ approaches", not just "look at approaches".
by simon_o 6y ago
I think what the GP wanted to say was along the lines of "look at _better_ approaches", not just "look at approaches".
- steveklabnik 6y agoMaybe. Regardless of what my parent meant, a lot of people in these discussions imply that we never looked at prior art because we did not make the choices around the tradeoff that they wanted us to make. And we did look at many, many approaches. We just decided to not go in those directions.
- simon_o 6y agoIf your prior art consists of "informed by several of us having experience with CPAN, RubyGems, and npm" it's no surprise that cargo suffers from the issues it currently suffers from.
- steveklabnik 6y agoIt is not a comprehensive list of things considered, it is a list of successful ecosystems that we decided to pick something closer to, than others that we decided not to. And even grouping those together in terms of downsides is not really doing justice to the individual problems that each of those systems deal with.
- gw 6y agoI wasn't even addressing the crates.io team, i was addressing the author of the post.