Are you using GitHub Package Registry?

[scripting]

Are you using GitHub Package Registry? If so, what's it like? What does it do beyond what NPM does? Do they do any interesting integrations? I hope to be able to access it soon, but for now, they haven't let me in.

[scripting]

Update: They added me to the beta. I'll use this space to ask questions and share observations.

[applemyer]

Hi Dave. I'm not a developer but follow a few. Andre Staltz https://twitter.com/andrestaltz tweeted a few things that were wary of the Github package registry. As follows:

André Staltz
‏ @andrestaltz
May 12

Which package manager solution would be the BEST in the long run?
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André Staltz
‏ @andrestaltz
May 11

I mean, the very reason WHY we have a problem with npm is centralization.

For a long while npm itself was very friendly, we have absolutely no guarantees of friendliness with Microsoft in the future.

Wake up.
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André Staltz
‏ @andrestaltz
May 11

André Staltz Retweeted André Staltz

Getting tired of debating in my mentions about centralization.

Package managers is a great use case for decentralization, and so many things we depend on and appreciate are decentralized already: git itself, email, CPUs (wasn't always true, e.g. mainframes), GPUs, TCP/IP.

André Staltz added,
André Staltz
@andrestaltz
With this, when GitHub is down you wouldn't be able to neither git pull nor npm install anymore.

#centralizationisfragile https://twitter.com/github/status/1126949311848288256 …
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André Staltz
‏ @andrestaltz
May 11

André Staltz Retweeted GitHub

With this, when GitHub is down you wouldn't be able to neither git pull nor npm install anymore.

#centralizationisfragile

André Staltz added,
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