code.dlang.org downtime

[suncarpet]

On Friday, 10 January 2020 at 04:06:28 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
> You are.
>
> It is an implementation detail, not policy.
>
> To do it 100% generically dub repository will have to 
> understand each VCS system, check it out and then archive it 
> before shipping it off on request. Instead of just downloading 
> an archive from the provider.
>
> You may not know this, but in the past the repository has had 
> problems crashing from doing these updates and then performing 
> downloads (its been resolved, but it really doesn't have the 
> infrastructure to do it properly I think).
And this is why I dig ditches for a living. Thank you for the 
(what should've been obvious) explanation.