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> Also, you can only create a crates.io account with a GitHub account Oh is that true? They tied themselves to Microsoft it seems. What about people who won't

by rdtsc 4mo ago

> Also, you can only create a crates.io account with a GitHub account Oh is that true? They tied themselves to Microsoft it seems. What about people who won't or can't use GitHub.

weinzierl 4mo ago
Yes, unfortunately it is true. Sad, but I could live with that. What in my opinion is unacceptable is that it requires you to give permission to "read your organization and team membership and private Projects". I made a separate GitHub account (weinzierl-trusted-publisher) for crates.io which is far from ideal, because it works completely against the idea to build trust for a single unified identity online, but ¯\(ツ)/¯.
- g-b-r 4mo ago
  Multiple free accounts are also against GitHub TOS
  - g-b-r 4mo ago
    A clause that I think should be illegal, btw
  - weinzierl 4mo ago
    I pay for my main account, but good point.
simonask 4mo ago
As far as I understand, this is purely a result of lack of maintainer resources. Apparently, nobody has been bothered enough by this to contribute the relevant changes. Keep in mind that all of rustc and libs development takes place on Github.
- progval 4mo ago
  There is some recent progress on https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/326 https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/326