On Monday, November 21, 2016 at 3:40:02 PM UTC+1, Peter Damoc wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Michel Rijnders <michel....@truqu.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> The issue is that somebody forked our package (truqu/elm-base64) and >> published it, so now there's two (nearly) identical packages, potentially >> causing confusion. >> > > This is a more interesting issue to discuss. > > On one side, there should be freedom to fork and improved/change a package > (as long as your license allows it). > On the other side, I would not want nearly identical packages creating > noise in the package manager. >
Totally agree, but in our case the fork was done solely because our package hadn't been upgraded to 0.18 yet. So once we upgraded our package there were two indentical packages. (Or nearly identical, because they forgot to upgrade the tests.) IMO having a way to install packages from other sources than package.elm-lang.org would solve this. > > > > -- > There is NO FATE, we are the creators. > blog: http://damoc.ro/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
