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
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Replying to @c0mmiebstrd
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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Replying to @c0mmiebstrd @rustlang
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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Replying to @c0mmiebstrd @rustlang
http://Crates.io is *supposed* to be *the* place to find
#rustlang packages, yes? We shouldn't be finding and ingesting git links due to something as simple as naming conflicts. There has to be a better way!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @c0mmiebstrd @rustlang
To clarify let the old useless package stay if it must, or be voted off, or some community agreement. I'm not proposing a solution atm. This is only going to cause people to take a name and hold it for money or power, if it hasn't already. That's just economics!
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Replying to @c0mmiebstrd @rustlang
Finally, even with rusts openness to discussion, ergonomics, and trying to better help new users (seems like it fits perfectly here), we cannot have further discussion about unmaintained crates? Would be terribly unfortunate. :(
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Yes; you’ve articulated the downsides well, but there are *also* downsides to that strategy that we currently feel are more serious. You might want to make a post on internals or write up an RFC if you’re serious about trying to start a policy change here!
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Replying to @rustlang
Will do! it sounded like there was no flexibility here, if there is as it sounds, I would be happy to do so. Would that be the same as regular rust rfcs or a crates specific rfc location?
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Replying to @c0mmiebstrd
Regular RFCs. The cargo team has their RFCs there too.
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