Has/Is there any further discussion on removal of unmaintained (*unstarted), and years old crates? Makes it difficult to use a name when conflicts aren't allowed and something, not using it, is using it. #rustlang
Nope; append-only has really nice properties. There are some drawbacks, but we think that they’re worth it.
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From a useful package perspective absolutely. I'll give an explicit example. Crate thermite is 2 yrs old with nothing but cargo new -bin, won't respond to email or similar. Googling the same shows a plethora of various more mature projects. Not only can i not find those...
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Or my own, yes selfish here, without avoiding everything that is holy about searching http://crates.io for rust packages and avoiding other lang's reliance on searching GitHub, and by extension making any reliant projects very confused.
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