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Re:GitHub Package Registry Will Support Swift Packages by jbigelow76 on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @12:42AM (#20091951)
No.. package managers / GitHub is the play here.

So MS is attempting to extinguish GitHub, a property they own, now? Or is MS embracing blah blah blah the concept of package management?

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Re:GitHub Package Registry Will Support Swift Packages by lugg on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @11:04AM (#20095691)
Why would anyone say this?

No.. they buy GitHub so they own pretty much most of open source software. Embrace.

Then they release a new package registry, one to rule them all, it supports all the things. Extend.

Extinguish, I don't know, that's why I asked the question, I don't know what the play here is.

Is it simply they now fully control distribution?

This doesn't sound like an issue until we're 10 years down the line and nobody creates package managers anymore. Nobody mirrors Linux, and everything has to go through GitHub.

Like I would think this is my own bias, and it certainly sounds tinfoil hattish to even me, but then I haven't forgotten those memos. Have you?

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