recommendation of https://nimpkgs.dayl.in

[ringabout]

ref #2995

[esafak]

It's not going to be open sourced so I disapprove.

I was confusing it with https://npacks.pages.dev

[hugosenari]

It's not going to be open sourced so I disapprove.

We are recommending a URL (an actual hosted site) so it doesn't matter if it is open or closed source, unless we are actually crowdfunding its operations.

[daylinmorgan]

It's not going to be open sourced so I disapprove.

Over on the other issue navid-m was saying npacks.pages.dev won't be open sourced.

nimpkgs is already open-source.

[esafak]

Sorry, I was thinking of the other site mentioned in that thread, https://npacks.pages.dev, not your https://github.com/nimpkgs/website

Furthermore, I did not realize we had two competing registries; https://github.com/nimpkgs/nimpkgs and https://github.com/nim-lang/packages (right?) This is unfortunate.

What if we kept the existing monolithic registry and simply designed a better web site? The good thing about having the registry in one json file is that it simplifies web site design. Otherwise you have to clone the repo to fetch everything, which is not feasible in a static client-side web site.

@daylinmorgan Are you open to PRs to the website?

[daylinmorgan]

Just to remove some confusion.

nimpkgs exists (for fun mostly) to take the ground truth from nim-lang/packages and give a pretty website.

nimpks/nimpkgs is not a competitor it's just an implementation detail of the website.
The "registry" at nimpkgs/nimpkgs is just a data dump I use to populate the site with extra info that isn't relevant to the package registry.

I'm open to PRs to the website (though I would expect first some discussion about issues or feature requests).

[esafak]

I see you set up a https://github.com/nimpkgs/crawler to automatically synchronize it with https://github.com/nim-lang/packages, so users still interact only with the latter. That is fine.

I'm open to PRs to the website (though I would expect first some discussion about issues or feature requests).

Would you like to open up Discussions in https://github.com/nimpkgs/website to hold these discussions or do you want people to use Issues for suggestions too? Done, thank you.