The longer I go the more I have actually come to appreciate the way Packagist works for the PHP community, there are lots of cool things it does that I wish NPM or other registries did by default, like forcing you to package from a source repository, so that you can't upload a different artifact from what you keep in source control.

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ecshafer 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How does a close source package work? Depending on the language its not super helpful, but a package that is closed source should be possible.

	▲	hmry 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		For crates.io: They don't allow closed-source packages. But they're just the free community package index, you're not forced to use them. You can: - host a private index - host the proprietary binaries in a git repo and use a git dependency - commit the proprietary binaries into your source repo, and use a path dependency

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steveklabnik 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

crates.io also only distributes source code.