From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jookia <166291@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [GSoC] Draft of my proposition Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 10:11:53 +1100 Message-ID: <20160323231153.GA16753@novena-choice-citizen.lan> References: <87h9g09nrr.fsf@gnu.org> <87fuvhvhu2.fsf@gmail.com> <87fuvhvhu2.fsf@gmail.com> <87fuvhq6i9.fsf@free.fr> <87fuvhq6i9.fsf@free.fr> <20160323212924.GA15238@novena-choice-citizen.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57141) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <166291@gmail.com>) id 1airzM-0002rr-UY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 19:14:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <166291@gmail.com>) id 1airzI-0002hc-Gn for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 19:14:56 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-x234.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::234]:36767) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <166291@gmail.com>) id 1airzI-0002hW-9X for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 19:14:52 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-x234.google.com with SMTP id r129so155995009wmr.1 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:14:52 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: vincent@cloutier.co Cc: Guix Devel On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:45:05PM +0000, vincent@cloutier.co wrote: > I want to add IPFS as an option, not as the only way to download stuff. It > might be better for privacy-conscious people to use http over Tor.  Perhaps, though I think it's worth thinking about if this issue is solvable for now. If an IPFS implementation is widely used and solves a lot of load issues, I can see it becoming the most commonly used option with tools relying on this functionality, especially for people running their own build servers and only using IPFS. Once in to the situation that a tool works for most people and it becomes a defacto standard it's very hard to get people to use other tools, especially if it would mean we'd end up running three networks: HTTP, IPFS and whatever p2p option there is that both Tor users and non-Tor users can use. > A company or any large install could run IPFS/Guix in a LAN, with a build > server, which would bring *huge* performance gains while being private. Why would they need IPFS in LAN if they have a build server? Jookia.