volojs/volo — Issue #7: Figure out directory lookups
Author: jrburke
Created: 2012-01-03 05:11:01+00:00
State: open

Ideally a dependency could just be specified as 'backbone' and by hitting the github API it could be determines that it should be 'documentcloud/backbone' for the github archive.

Unfortunately the v3 of the GitHub API does not have a search API, unlike v2. Need to figure out the story there, but that would be the ideal API to use.

Perhaps using the google search API could be used, but it has a pretty low free search result cap. At that point it may make sense to run a server that caches short name lookups to the longer names, but ideally a server would not be needed.