ipack registry is the global package index for ipack.
Let's say we have a package called hello_world. If we upload this package, there will be a entry added in the packages field of he/index.json (he are the first two letters of hello_world) that contains general metadata about the package like it's name, version and authors, as well as information used for compiling packages. Here is an example, of how that could look like for the packagehello_world:
{
"name": "hello_world",
"authors": [
"John Doe <[email protected]>"
],
"version": "1.0.0"
}
There will also be a directory inside of the he folder called hello_world created, that contains a text file for each version with that versions name looking like this:
https://github.com/octocat/hello-world
The link will be a link to the source code of the package. Links will be determined when uploading using a field in the project.toml. Following like types will work (more will come later):
- Git repository
- Files, will require more information in the
project.tomlfile
If you cannot upload the package to a server or git repository yourself, the code will automatically be uploaded into a folder with the versions name.
Package names are restricted to the following
- Names have to be between 3 to 32 characters long
- Names can only use
a-z,A-Z,_and. - Names can only use
_and-after the second character - Cannot be the name of a module from the stdlib
We reserve the right to takedown packages/rename them if the restrictions are updated, it violates copyright law or we see need otherwise.