Stop using skimdb

[zeke]

http://blog.npmjs.org/post/157615772423/deprecating-the-all-registry-endpoint

In six months, on September 1 2017, we plan to shut down the servers that back the GET /-/all endpoint of registry.npmjs.org.

This package will need to be updated to use a different technique for collecting package data at install time, probably using package-stream.

Thanks to @rmg for pointing this out in https://github.com/npm/registry/issues/136

[rootAvish]

Hey @zeke, does this mean the data that this package downloads has not been updated after September?

[zeke]

@rootAvish that's correct. You may want to take a look at https://github.com/nice-registry/package-stream to easily download all the package data.

[bananabr]

Hi @zeke,

I don't think you guys ever replaced skimdb right?
Can one still use this package somehow?

Thanks

[zeke]

Yeah this package is unmaintained. It would need to be updated to use the replicate.npmjs.com endpoint.