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Does crates.io have a backup plan? (lemmy.bestiver.se)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's possible that the .io cctld is going to go away [0]. Does crates.io have a backup plan at all? Does anyone know what problems it would end up causing?

I imagine the package registry having to move domains is going to cause a ton of problems.

Frankly, it's concerning to me that so much of the Rust ecosystem has chosen to standardize on shaky ccTLDs. The Indian Ocean Territory (.io) is a small island territory whose only inhabitants are a single military base, it is crazy to use that domain for something important. Serbia (.rs) is more stable, but they could still cut off access for non-Serbians if they wanted to.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io#Phasing_Out

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Namespacing by username or org is a good way to get people to download the compromised wrong crate though since barely any document will talk about that part of the name and it will sometimes change over the lifetime of a project.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

Is that a problem with java? In fact, is it even a problem on github where repos are namespaced by user or org?

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