Crom – A package manager without the package registry. Freedom
2 points · Open discussioncrom
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Observed mentions: 2016-01-26 00:08:29 UTC to 2016-03-23 11:44:45 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jan 25 | 2016-01-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Feb 1 | 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-02-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 8 | 2016-02-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-02-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 15 | 2016-02-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 22 | 2016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 29 | 2016-02-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 7 | 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 14 | 2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 21 | 2016-03-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
4 sources`crom install d3-voronoi` installs hijacked package
1 points · Open discussionCrom: package manager that doesn’t need its own registry, uses GitHub instead
4 points · Open discussionCrom – A package manager without the package registry
16 points · Open discussion