Fabrizio Ferrai

@finnhodgkin what's the longest package name you have?

> But it seems to me the more correct thing to do would be to allow local package names to be arbitrarily long. I don't think that should be allowed...

And [npm uses 214 chars](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/8077#issuecomment-97258418) (funnily enough they started with 50 as well). Let's do 128 and pour some concrete in there 😄

Sure, that works too!

@finnhodgkin ah yes that makes sense. I think our codecs could do with some improvement and better error reporting (see #1057 as well)

As mentioned in #1063: > I guess the easiest way to get this done would be to run a `spago graph modules --json` when we build the index, and dump...

This is unblocked now: when we generate the index we can write to disk the result of `spago graph modules --json` in a place where the Halogen app can find...

> Define requirement "make implementation more robust" This was coming from the perspective of "we have to match things in a folder and hope they are right". But now we...

Heh, CI fails because Spago can't build itself anymore - I think we should accept both formats for now, and keep the config in the old format until we have...

We have already bootstrapped in the past so that's not the issue - we are indeed in alpha, but at this point there are quite some packages using this version...