Define what "crates.io" is to "rust". "Registry"?

[behnam]

I was updating cargo's docs to use the term accurately, and I realized that there's clear term for what "crates.io" is.

https://crates.io/ has these lines in the homepage:

• "Cargo / pacakges for Rust",
• "The Rust community’s crate host",

There's no "About crates.io" page.

In http://doc.crates.io/manifest.html#the-publish--field-optional, we have "a package repository", to which I added "(like crates.io)" recently to prevent confusions with a git repository of a package.

In http://doc.crates.io/manifest.html#the-patch-section, we also have "the https://crates.io registry".

In http://doc.crates.io/manifest.html#package-metadata we again have "The crates.io registry".

In https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition/, we have "the Rust package registry site, crates.io".

IIRC, in some of the error messages and issues/pulls, it's call "package index".

My Recommendation

IMHO, "package registry" sounds very good to me, and clearly denotes the registry role of the website.

When agreed on the term, we should update some of these docs to use the same wording.

[steveklabnik]

I was updating cargo's docs to use the term accurately,

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IMHO, "package registry" sounds very good to me, and clearly denotes the registry role of the website.

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[carols10cents]

Yep, I agree "package registry" is the right term. Seems like the fixes need to go in the docs in cargo's repo, so I'm going to give this a close!