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by arcatek 2834 days ago
I think you're referring to the package-name-maps[1] proposal. We've been made aware of it during the middle of the development, and while we chose to continue using the static data tables approach, they aren't incompatible.

The reason we abstracted the static tables behind a JS api is precisely to make it easier for everyone to experiment with various implementations - some might use the internally embedded data as we do, some could consume a package-name-maps file, and some could do something entirely different. As long as the contract described in the document is fulfilled, everything is possible.

[1] https://github.com/domenic/package-name-maps