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When do you think Entropic will be ready?

Will it compete with the GitHub registry or would the GHR just be one way of using it?

Will ds be an alternative to yarn and npm?

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Kat Marchán

When do you think Entropic will be ready?

I don't know, the main maintainers all got slammed with work stuff, so work slowed down. I only just got back to working on client work this past weekend, because I had just finished my first month at my new job.

Will it compete with the GitHub registry or would the GHR just be one way of using it?

I guess, but I don't think GHR is a general-purpose solution to ecosystem hosting. I think GHR could most definitely implement the Entropic protocol, though, and they're free to do so!

Will ds be an alternative to yarn and npm?

Yes and no -- it's a completely different package manager with a different concept.