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Because PL devs and their communities, until very large, have limited resources; supporting niche use cases needs to be provided by people wanting that niche se
by fshr 3y ago
Because PL devs and their communities, until very large, have limited resources; supporting niche use cases needs to be provided by people wanting that niche served, not by the primary contributors.
- toastal 3y ago…Or use something generic like a tarball? Almost all DVCS have the ability to export an archive. Don’t build on lock-in; build on the generic thing… and then provide an ‘enhanced’ experience for something specific like Git or a specific forge.
- alexvitkov 3y agoWhen did the ability to clone a repo outside of GitHub become a niche use case? It's not something you need to explicitly support, in fact you have to actively go out of your way to make sure only GitHub works.
- YorickPeterse 3y agoInko's package manager supports non-GitHub repositories just fine. What the original comment likely is referring to is the website only including GitHub based packages. This is simply because the script that populates that list hasn't been extended to support more than GitHub, because there hasn't been a need for it so far.