Hosting dub packages on public Heptapod instances?

[Andre Pany]

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?

Side information, as dub client is also able to speak Maven, you 
can host your Dub packages on any Maven registry like Nexus or 
Artifactory.

Kind regards
Andre