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0 pointsvisarga10y ago0 comments

> Let's admit that the main problem here is with broken npm

It is absurd to have packages suddenly retracted and important parts of the ecosystem stop functioning. This never happened with other languages I have used. Maybe we need a way to make sure the packages are always going to exist. Checksumming and adding the checksum to the version number would be useful too.

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haddr10y ago

That's why there are proposals for immutable and distributed packages managers. Look at gx for instance. This is probably the future for package managers maintained by community.

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0 pointsvisarga10y ago0 comments

> Let's admit that the main problem here is with broken npm

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haddr10y ago

That's why there are proposals for immutable and distributed packages managers. Look at gx for instance. This is probably the future for package managers maintained by community.

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