Re: Using IPFS to host mirrors of source packages

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> Ludovic Courtès transcribed 0.6K bytes:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:
> > 
> > > By hosting source packages on IPFS they become content addressable and
> > > should scale for downloads. It would also become a safe way of
> > > distributing data. 
> > >
> > > https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs
> 
> I hope that you are aware that this isn't that safe.
> As an intermediate solution it is okay. It is similar to providing
> torrents. It works, but everyone wants the easy way, the
> easy solution which works $now.

Eh, let me revise that. It is safe, but IPFS solves different problems
than GNUnet. They are doing good work nevertheless.
I just think that putting work into something entirely different is
pointless, from where I stand. If everyone who complained about certain
things would work on them just a bit, we'd move faster. But hey, that's
life. Just a check on wether we'll have IPFS and GNUnet some day or
if I should just consider working on it completely on my own now as
you consider GNUnet doomed (or something).

> Maybe we have different goals, which would be okay aswell,
> you can have different goals but still work on a common base
> as teams.
> 
> On an update semi-related to this thread:
> I don't have any illusions, gnunet-fs integration will take some
> time going from the theory lynX, Grothoff and mainly myself thought of,
> talked through and wrote down to having it in place. It will require
> some additions to gnunet-fs which need to be discussed, etc.
> 
> > I would love such a thing to happen (that’s also why we had a GSoC on
> > using GNUnet’s file sharing capabilities a while back.)
> > 
> > The simplest thing to get started, as you wrote, would be to have an
> > HTTPS gateway to IPFS (which ‘guix substitute’ could readily talk to
> > without any modification), though one would still need to populate IPFS
> > in the first place.
> > 
> > Ludo’.
> > 
> > 
> 
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