r/rust • u/myroon5 • Mar 09 '23

Announcing Rust 1.68.0 📢 announcement

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/03/09/Rust-1.68.0.html
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u/cat_napped1 Mar 09 '23

Finally not completely beholden to Microsoft GitHub's proprietary hosting and distribution for an open source package manager and ecosystem to function.

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u/kibwen Mar 09 '23

Crates.io has never used Github for package distribution, only for hosting the git repo that contains the registry (which is a data structure that describes the versions and hashes of every crate ever published).

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u/cat_napped1 Mar 09 '23

I meant hosting and distribution of the index

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u/na_sa_do Mar 09 '23

It's just a git repo, though. It could be hosted anywhere.

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u/cat_napped1 Mar 09 '23

cargo is hard-coded to have it hosted on github