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I believe I read some where that some of the libraries and helpers aren't really going to be "extended" further. Libraries like Javascript, Cart, FTP and helpers like smiley, xml. Perhaps as those are placed in "freeze" mode they could be moved over to there as well.
Adding these packages should be as easy as possible. ie. add folder, add autoload path (or something).
I know a lot of people don't want to go composer but providing BOTH methods would be nice.
ie. download the package here and install the normal way or add this to your composer file...
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The Encrypt library has been replaced by the Encryption library.
As noted in the upgrade notes, the Email helper servers no purpose now.
The Javascript library is flagged as deprecated because it doesn't work properly and should not be relied on.
There is an outstanding PR to replace it, but no consensus on it.
This could be something best left to an external library, or something dealt with as part of CI4.
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Leaving the deprecations aside, I think that having a package repository would be a great idea, with all needed packages in a place ready to install. It could be almost as with Python and Pip. Good Idea, voting yes!
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Personally I like the idea, but I think the issue is one of official support. Surely having to support anything other than the core package and future dev is a big enough job, without the additional 'package' support an official repository would require.
However on re-reading the question it is about CI recommending a package site. Not sure CI should do that as anyone should be free to start a package site if they wish, without feeling like they are contradicting the very framework they are trying to support.
So all in all I think I am voting No.
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I think it would be a good idea for CI to have its own package web site, this way everything is in one place.
So I vote yes
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I think it would be much easier on the maintainers to have a list of packages and link them to packagist.
Having another site may be nice, but it adds a lot of additional overhead.
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