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Gemfury supports Python, so OK for now.

Michael from Gemfury here. We've been using Golang for a couple of years with a dependency manager that we've built internally and will shortly release to the public. If you'd like…

Rather than creating new methods for a class, YAML.load can be used to call one of a few specific methods ([]=, init_with, or yaml_initialize) for the specified class. This exploit…

Gemfury also supports private Python packages

For a long time Amazon fulfilled only their own products (and some large partners) from their warehouses. Now, it's offered to everyone as Fulfillment by Amazon service. No doubt A…

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It offers all the advantages of a cloud service - on demand, pay as you go, no maintenance. Very similar to Artifactory Online (cloud version)

Every language has a separate way of doing packages, explaining the individual benefit based on your preference is a more clear message to get across. The other benefit is it helps…

That's because we started the site before Bootstrap was released, but as we iterated, we ported much of the site over. And you're spot-on about Gemfury's purpose

I cringe too, but the reason it's used is because it works - great way to explain something new based on something you already know in a few words.

Thank you and Twitter - Bootstrap makes things so much easier.

The service currently services RubyGems customers from the root domain. We figured Hacker News is a wider audience than just Ruby and would be of great help to decide which directi…

Sorry for the confusion - we figured it'd be easier to explain the service for each individual platform separately, rather than all at once. Hence the up-front selection.

Dropbox stores files in the cloud which are then easily accessible by authorized computers - Gemfury does that for code packages.

Great idea. Thanks for the suggestion

Thank you for the "more info" suggestion. Which language and package repository are you interested in?

Maybe one day :)