GitHub gets a package registry

GitHub today announced the launch of a limited beta of the GitHubPackage Registry, its new package management service that lets developers publish public and private packages next to their source code.
To be clear, GitHub isn’t launching a competitor to tools like npm or RubyGems. What the company is launching, however, is a service that is compatible with these tools and allows developers to find and publish their own packages, using the same GitHub interface they use for their code. The