Hosting dub packages on public Heptapod instances?

[Seb]

On Saturday, 22 February 2020 at 12:29:17 UTC, Gregor Mückl wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The dub registry is currently only allowing package hosting on 
> github, gitlab or bitbucket. This is incredibly limited and 
> does not allow packages hosted elsewhere. This choice also 
> limits dub to git repositories although it handles e.g. 
> Mercurial just fine in practice. At the minimum I'd like to see 
> support for gitlab or Heptapod instances other than just 
> gitlab.com. My personal motivation is that I had to move my 
> publicly visible projects from Bitbucket to my own Heptapod 
> instance recently because Atlassian has arbitrary decided to 
> delete a ton of projects from Bitbucket.
>
> Let's assume for a moment that a PR could be provided that adds 
> this support. Would you want to have that feature in the dub 
> registry in principle?

Of course, I think the sole reason the support is so limited is 
that no one has had time to improve it.

BTW maybe instead of adding another API to the registry, a 
generic git solution could be added that uses the git protocol to 
query for SemVer tags and thus solve this problem once and for 
all.