Hello everyone, has anyone tried [GitHub Packages]...

# random

[jaguililla]

Hello everyone, has anyone tried [GitHub Packages](https://github.com/features/packages)? And if so,
can it be used instead [Bintray JCenter](https://bintray.com/bintray/jcenter)? By this I mean being
able to publish JARs in a way they can be fetched by setting up only one Maven/Gradle repository
(not one per GitHub repository). Thank you very much for your thoughts :)

[elect]

I got curious and read about that, but unfortunately it looks like anyone wanting to retrieve must first go through some tedious setup..

[elect]

my suggestion? Jitpack, super-easy

[Dominaezzz]

iirc, GitHub packages require authentication for consumption.

[jaguililla]

I was thinking in moving the binaries out of Bintray to rely more on GitHub and have less 3rd party services... But your comments tell me it is not feasible right now. Thanks for your opinion 🙂 I'm finding out about jitpack.io it seems very promising

[gregorbg]

I had tried GitHub packages as well. It seemed convenient at first but it turns out every single user needs to authenticate with the GitHub token mechanism even if they just want to download an artifact from your public repository. So right now this feature is completely useless IMHO

[itnoles]

you are talking about Personal Access Token?

[gregorbg]

If that's what it's called, perhaps. I don't like the fact that you have to provide some form of authentication to gain access to a public repo

[itnoles]

https://help.github.com/en/packages/publishing-and-managing-packages/about-github-packages#about-tokens