Wow, bootstrap really does allow for a much nicer looking front page doesn't it? This seems like a great step forward. I was recently looking to set up a local chishop server to act as a mirror.. it seems like the cacheable url's thing means you're thinking to enable people to set this up locally and have it pass requests that 404 through to the crate.io server? I would love to do that. Is that workable now?<p>My one suggestion would be to make a simpler to type url than 'simple.crate.io' since people may have to type it in on the command line from time to time. Perhaps '<a href="http://crate.io/s/" rel="nofollow">http://crate.io/s/</a>?
The name bothers me: the Rust team has chosen "crates" to designate Rust libraries (technically compilation and distribution units for Rust, crates can yield libraries or binaries): <a href="http://doc.rust-lang.org/doc/rust.html#crates-and-source-files" rel="nofollow">http://doc.rust-lang.org/doc/rust.html#crates-and-source-fil...</a>, and I don't remember ever seeing this kind of lingo around Python modules and distribution units.