Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : dat Version : 13.10.0 Upstream Author : Max Ogden * URL : https://github.com/datproject/dat * License : BSD 3-Clause Programming Lang: Javascript Description : Share & live sync files anywhere via command line
Dat is a commandline application that implements a protocol of the same name described as "Distributed Dataset Synchronization And Versioning". It can be used to share files with version control, back up data to servers, browse remote files on demand, and automate long-term data preservation. -- This is only the commandline node application, but more packaging work could be done to ship the "desktop" app - which is really just a browser plugin masquerading as an app through the Electron framework. This is similar to the IPFS package requested in #779893, except the protocol is different and it's written in Javascript instead of Golang. So presumably this will require a gazillion node dependencies before it's shipped in Debian. It might therefore be better to live under the javascript packaging team umbrella. I did summary tests of the package and it works well. This could be extremely useful for our users, as it provides a decentralized and fast way to share small and large datasets in all privacy across the internet without relying on a central server. Oh and with versionning. A very promising project.