Crates

Archival for Crates is currently in development:

• Loader Source Code

• Loader Developer documentation

• Lister Source Code

• Lister Developer documentation

• Tracking loader issue

• Tracking lister issue

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crates.io is the package manager of the Rust programming language.

It relies on an index hosted on GitHub, and provides database dumps, which Software Heritage uses to list packages, and create origins using this pattern: https://crates.io/crates/crate.