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Re:Deno 1.0 by james-mcelwain on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @09:10PM (#23173975)
One advantage of urls is that you can link to a specific git sha, tag, or branch for a dependency, e.g. on github.
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Re:Deno 1.0 by filleduchaos on Thursday May 14, 2020 @12:29AM (#23175308)
So exactly like existing tooling can already do, then?
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Re:Deno 1.0 by james-mcelwain on Thursday May 14, 2020 @12:51AM (#23175451)
Sure, I probably phrased that poorly -- it's not a unique advantage, but benefit of having URLs be the only way to link to dependencies versus a centralized, dominant package manager.
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