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		s_kilk on March 8, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CocoaPods downloads max out five GitHub server CPU... Same goes for almost any language-specific package manager you could name: Rust/Cargo, Clojure/Clojars, Node/npm, Elixir/hex, Python/PyPi. No matter which way you slice it, what CocoaPods is doing is a bit daft, especially at their scale.

steveklabnik on March 8, 2016 | [–]

Small note: Cargo _does_ use an index (not the source code), in git, on GitHub. However, we're already doing the directory layout that they recommend in-thread, so we shouldn't have this specific problem.

kuschku on March 8, 2016 | [–]

Or even the Java community, where you have MavenCentral, JCenter, etc.

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