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Re: The GitHub registry public beta is live

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Post by chrisseaton »

danShumway wrote: post #9

> 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 an…

> what can I do now that I couldn't already do with Github as is?

Before this new service how would you use GitHub as a source for installing, for example, Maven packages?

Re: The GitHub registry public beta is live

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matharmin wrote: post #18
danShumway wrote: post #9

> 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 an…

In my experience, using git as a dependency source for NPM (including yarn) or Ruby never worked well. It works for a simple case, but it's usually much slower, has issues around managing credentials for private repos, and doesn't have a nice way to publish built files.

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Re: The GitHub registry public beta is live

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

danShumway wrote: post #9

> 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 an…

If you are familiar with Nexus or Artifactory or Verdaccio, which all essentially let you have private NPM repos (among other formats like Maven, etc.), that's what this is.

Re: The GitHub registry public beta is live

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Post by thanatos_dem »

sooheon wrote: post #15
thefounder wrote: post #10

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

This is not unique to Go, every language I work with can use dependencies in this way.

How about java projects? How can I add a dependency to a project I’m building without it being published to a maven repo, for instance?

Re: The GitHub registry public beta is live

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Post by farmerbb »

chrisseaton wrote: post #21
danShumway wrote: post #9

> 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 an…

> what can I do now that I couldn't already do with Github as is? Before this new service how would you use GitHub as a source for installing, for example, Maven packages?

There's https://jitpack.io, but it's a third-party service. Having first-party support for Maven artifacts served by GitHub will be quite nice.

Re: The GitHub registry public beta is live

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Post by bad_user »

matharmin wrote: post #18
danShumway wrote: post #9

> 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 an…

In my experience, using git as a dependency source for NPM (including yarn) or Ruby never worked well. It works for a simple case, but it's usually much slower, has issues around managing credentials for private repos, and doesn't have a nice way to publish built files.

Also, most importantly, Git repositories are not immutable and any package repo that's not immutable is a terrible, terrible idea

Re: The GitHub registry public beta is live

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Post by dahfizz »

danShumway wrote: post #9

> 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 an…

It may seem less useful for interpreted languages, like JS, where the code is the artifact. For compiled languages, having a separate place to store official artifacts is much more important.
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