From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Hinsen Subject: Re: Lightning talk at IPFS camp Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 18:53:53 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87ef4g2zfq.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <8cdf8d67-2b98-c6f9-e795-d507207b4e1b@fastmail.net> <87y32ff7w9.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87k1dygabn.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:32802) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hYveJ-0001M6-Dh for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:54:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hYveI-0001OP-9s for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:53:59 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:59547) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hYveI-0001MT-23 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:53:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87k1dygabn.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> 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" To: Pierre Neidhardt , Guix-devel Pierre Neidhardt writes: >> I was thinking of the Guix package definitions. In the long run, >> assuming IPFS turns out to be reliable enough, we could put all source >> into IPFS with a CID reference, rather then today's many ways to >> download source files. > > There would be nothing special about it beside implementing an IPFS > fetcher, or would it? Let me know if I misunderstood. What's special about it is that it could replace all the other ones. > Didn't know Radicle, it looks fantabulous! And... it uses (or plans to) > a Scheme-based language! :) Exactly. > So you are saying that we could move the guix.git to a Radicle project, > right? Yes, assuming all that becomes stable at some point. Konrad.