The GitHub registry public beta is live

bdcravens wrote: post #3

penagwin wrote: post #2

Any word on pricing?

> GitHub Package Registry is free for all repositories during the beta. And it will always be free for public and open source repositories. https://github.com/features/package-registry

Perfect thanks!

Re: The GitHub registry public beta is live

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Post by hprotagonist » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 9:08 PM UTC

There's no immediate mention of this on the site, but -- why did they select the package formats that they did?

I'd love to be able to host wheels for my python projects, or {rpm, deb, flatpack, etc...} for effectively arbitrary code. Is that in the works?

Re: The GitHub registry public beta is live

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Post by catern » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 9:10 PM UTC

The lack of "the" makes this read a bit weirdly:

>GitHub Package Registry allows you to develop your code and host your packages in one place. You can use packages from GitHub Package Registry as a dependency in your source code on GitHub.

"Package registry" is a fairly generic term, so to me it would be natural to refer to this product as "the Github package registry" (capitalized or not).

Is there a name for deliberately avoiding "the" in this way?

Re: The GitHub registry public beta is live

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Post by superzamp » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 9:11 PM UTC

catern wrote: post #7

The lack of "the" makes this read a bit weirdly: >GitHub Package Registry allows you to develop your code and host your packages in one place. You can use packages from GitHub Package Registry as a dependency in your source code on GitHub. "Package registry" is a fairly generic term, so to me it would be natural to refer to this product as "the Github package registry" (capitalized or not). Is there a name for delibe…

marketing?

Re: The GitHub registry public beta is live

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Post by danShumway » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 9:16 PM UTC

> is a software package hosting service, similar to npmjs.org, rubygems.org, or hub.docker.com, that allows you to host your packages and code in one place. You can host software packages privately or publicly and use them as dependencies in your projects.

I am... really confused by this.

Isn't this just Github? Github is a hosting service that allows you to host your packages and code in one place. It has testing and publishing pipeline support, you can add artifacts/releases, make your packages private or public, host different types of software at the same time, and it's compatible with most existing dependency systems, including NodeJS.

I can see this has more download statistics, which is nice. And it has a policy that artifacts can't be deleted, which is very nice.

Is that it though? I know I have to be missing something; what can I do now that I couldn't already do with Github as is?

Re: The GitHub registry public beta is live

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Post by thefounder » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 9:17 PM UTC

I like Go more. The git/hg/svn/bz repository is the "package". No custom (and central) "registry"