The massive bug at the heart of npm
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The History of the Registry Client
D'Arcy: Why do you think this decision was made? I mean, what would be the reason that the registry would want to have a copy of a file that's already in the package and duplicate that information? Just maybe it would be helpful to go through why that might have been done. Totally. So I went back basically over a decade to the very beginning when Isaac Schlitter was working furiously on both the CLI, the registry as well as was very active. And I looked at the first few iterations of the registry side of this or the registry client. We'll have in the show notes a reference to that actual registry client.
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