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0 pointsVWWHFSfQ3y ago0 comments

Cargo is hard-coded to use GitHub for the crates.io index [1]

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/blob/master/src/cargo/sou...

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That's a big yikes...

That's being addressed with a new index protocol, specified a while ago[1], available for testing since the middle of the last year[2], and slated for release in a week's time[3].

[1] https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/2789-sparse-index.html

[2] https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/06/22/sparse-registry-testin...

[3] https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/01/30/cargo-spar...

bin_bash3y ago

I stand corrected—I was thinking of the crates themselves.

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