A decentralised package discovery and fetching for C3

[joshring]

We could create a simple API and database to aggregate c3 projects.

A C3 project is defined as having a topic assigned like eg c3-module

A similar idea has happened here for zig

https://zigistry.dev/ has the output
https://zigistry.dev/help/ is how the topics are assigned to a repo

Searching GitHub API
Todo: initial search https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51912862/how-to-list-all-repositories-for-a-given-topic-with-rest-api-in-github

Decentralised in that we don't have to manage those projects, registration, emails, resetting password etc, who gets updated etc. But we could add a filter for malicious projects which we do not wish to allow.

[devin12422]

I'm confused about how the GitHub API is decentralized, but regardless, there's an idea I'd love to see made manifest in C3's package manager. That'd be Unison's Content Addressing. To pull the point from directly from the article; "No dependency conflicts"

[joshring]

Decentralised in that we don't have to manage those projects, registration, emails, resetting password etc, who gets updated etc. But we could add a filter for malicious projects which we do not wish to allow.

Thanks for the link, I'll have a look later on.