Dominik Picheta

One potential drawback with this proposal is that you won't be able to as easily add a new package using just the GitHub web interface.

> A small database is preferred over a directory because it can be: downloaded easily over plain http, replaced atomically on disk, checksummed to verify integrity, signed. > SQLite is...

Let's just remove these packages :)

CC @philip-wernersbach

feel free to fix it

> * Go lives a happy live without this list. Oh yeah? How does Go deal with package name conflicts?

That's not what I meant... although I guess Golang allows git urls in imports so that's how it handles these conflicts.

> And technically no, go does not "allow git urls", the details are a bit different. But it certainly does allow github urls and custom package hosting services. Really? It...

> Without releases, there is no way for me to confirm that all users of my own packages have the correct version of my package's dependencies. That's not quite true,...

Yeah, I understand the annoyance of installing a package and it not working. This usually happens because people forget that once they tag, Nimble will not install `#head` anymore. So...