GitHub proxy via x (like "x/gh:githubusername:repo@tag") deprecated?

[josephrocca]

It was previously possible to import a package from GitHub like this:

https://deno.land/x/gh:githubusername:[email protected]/mod.js

I can't find any notice about this being deprecated - I only noticed today when I tried to run an old-ish script. If it is deprecated, maybe this could be added as a message on the resulting 404 page? I'm happy to make a pull request for this. I'd just chance "This module does not exist." to something like "This module does not exist. The github proxy has been deprecated."

Also, if it was deprecated (i.e. this isn't a bug) was this discussed somewhere? I like deno's strong backwards-compatibility guarantees for the runtime and would hope that this philosophy spills over into other areas. That said, in these early days of deno a deprecation like this certainly has a lower cost and might be worth it.

[lcasdev]

Yes this is deprecated. We recently rolled out an update to the registry: https://deno.land/posts/registry2. This was incompatible with the /x/gh: and /x/npm: links, so they had to be removed (we always labeled these as experimental). We had a deprecation notice on these files for a month before actually disabling them. Sorry for the inconvenience

[josephrocca]

Ah okay - no worries! Reading through that blog post it's clear the trade-off was worth it.