The hashes of the uncompressed tarballs would be great. Then the HTTP connection...

		bhouston on Jan 27, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5% The hashes of the uncompressed tarballs would be great. Then the HTTP connection can negotiate a compression format for transfer (which can change over time at HTTP itself changes) rather than baking it into the NPM package standard (which is incredibly inflexible.)