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[norm]

On Thursday, 15 October 2020 at 03:33:10 UTC, Vitaly Livshic 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 October 2020 at 22:21:21 UTC, norm wrote:
>> Git can clone the metadata without checking out HEAD if that 
>> is all dub requires, which sounds more like what the dub 
>> registry requires.
>
> There are several tens public repositories for open-source 
> projects. If SourceForge has bad reputation, project can be 
> hosted by any of these sites. Why limit by three commercial 
> ones for open source code?
>
> Git is most popular system, but Mercurial, Fossil, Darcs have 
> users too. Allowed sites have no support.

I don't think dub needs to support anything but git for now, even 
bitbucket has dropped support for mercurial.

But I agree dub registry should be able to support *any* valid 
url that points at any open git repo.