Future enhancement idea: Easy way of making custom repositories

[Daniel15]

One of the things I love about Linux repositories (such as Debian and RPM repositories) is that it just consists of plain files and there's no custom server-side component at all. There's a few files that contain metadata about all the packages, along with the actual binaries themselves (eg. .deb for Debian, .rpm for CentOS). This makes it super easy to host a repository as long as the metadata is built correctly. You can even host a package repo on a plain basic webhost such as Github Pages.

It would be awesome to have something like this for Yarn too, a simple way of making a custom package server. "Throw these files onto a server somewhere" is a much easier deployment strategy than running some custom server software and having to worry about keeping it up-to-date with security patches etc.

Related: #547 (support for multiple servers), #606 (number of stars on this issue means a lot of people are using custom servers already)

[gsklee]

@Daniel15 If you're still looking to pursue this idea, the scale of this feature request means that it needs to go through the proper RFC process.

[Daniel15]

Yeah... This issue was created before the RFC process was finalized, hence why it's in the repo.

I don't think I'll have time to flesh it out soon... Happy to help someone with it though. Maybe one day I'll have enough time to write up an RFC 😛

[gsklee]

Well in that case, is it safe to say that we can close this issue for now? I'm helping out with #3474 :-p