It’s possible that the .io cctld is going to go away [0]. Does crates.io have a backup plan at all? Does anyone know what problems it would end up causing?
I imagine the package registry having to move domains is going to cause a ton of problems.
Frankly, it’s concerning to me that so much of the Rust ecosystem has chosen to standardize on shaky ccTLDs. The Indian Ocean Territory (.io) is a small island territory whose only inhabitants are a single military base, it is crazy to use that domain for something important. Serbia (.rs) is more stable, but they could still cut off access for non-Serbians if they wanted to.
It shouldn’t be too hard to have a backup domain point to the same resources. Could even be setup as a fallback mirror by default.
What about stopping the bullsh*t of TLD nonsense and doing something like crates.rust-lang? It’s the most sensible solution.
There’s zero chance they will get rid of .io.
Are you willing to bet the stability of an entire language’s dependency ecosystem on that? Just so that we can write “crates.io” instead of “crates.rust-lang.org”?
That’s really the question. I do agree that there’s almost no chance it goes away as too many places and too much money depends on it.
Yes I definitely am. It’s really nice that crates.io is short, and it’s silly to give that up for a miniscule risk of something moderately annoying happening.
Even if the domain goes away we’d just have to all move to a new domain. Annoying but hardly the end of the world. Cargo.io isn’t actually hard-coded in many places. It’s nothing like if github.com stopped existing.
Submit an issue asking for preemptive GNS (Gnu Name System) domain name support, and leave a link to it here.
I seriously doubt they will actually phase it out, with such a popular TLD. They made an exception for .su, I don’t see why they wouldn’t this time as well.
