Why force GitHub as the place to host code?

[joshuabyler]

In Description.hs the following code

dropDomain :: String -> Either String String
dropDomain string =
  let
    http = "http://github.com/"
    https = "https://github.com/"
  in
    if List.isPrefixOf http string then
        Right (drop (length http) string)

    else if List.isPrefixOf https string then
        Right (drop (length https) string)

    else
        Left (repoProblem "The given domain does not start with <https://github.com/>")

forces the repository field in elm-package.json to start with http://github.com/ or https://github.com/. I wanted to host my code elsewhere, and got an error message, I had to enter just a random https://github.com/random.git to get elm-package install to run correctly.

Can this requirement be changed?

I am using ELM 0.18.0 on Mac OS 10.12.3. To reproduce the error, create a elm-package.json and change the repository field to something that does not start with http://github.com/ or https://github.com/.

[process-bot]

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[jvoigtlaender]

See https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-package/issues/189 and https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-make/issues/59 and various other issues referenced from those.

Your new issue here is redundant.

[joshuabyler]

@jvoigtlaender: thanks for pointing that out I didn't see those issues earlier. closing this