-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/03/2014 04:35, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Pierre-Antoine Rault <p...@rigelk.eu> writes: > >> On 10/03/2014 22:09, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>> >>> The initial discussion [0] left open the question of where >>> binaries themselves should be stored. A possibility would be >>> to use GNUnet’s DHT simply as a discovery mechanism, and then >>> to establish a connection directly to the user’s machine, which >>> would run, say, an HTTP server. >> >> That's what I had in mind. Now, considered the post [2] by >> Christian Grothoff, we might consider using either an HTTP server >> for performance or GNUnet's MESH for anonymity (and security). We >> should balance needs and ease of implementation. >> >> [2] >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-03/msg00113.html > >> > FWIW, I think it might be worthwhile to support BitTorrent magnet > links as well, as a middle ground between these two extremes. Most > users will not be able to host binaries via HTTP; even if they have > a server, the bandwidth requirements are hard to predict and likely > to be too high.
I'm not sure to understand why you precise "BitTorrent" magnet links. Magnet is a de-facto standard that is independant from BitTorrent [3] [4], and using BitTorrent in our case wouldn't have better performance than GNUnet's MESH. The only user case when BitTorrent might come in handy is when one wants to download a binary (as one would download a .deb) before manually installing it with guix ; i suppose this can also be done through GNUnet. Then of course it's just a user case: users might be more familiar with BitTorrent. [3] http://magnet-uri.sourceforge.net/ [4] http://magnet-uri.sourceforge.net/magnet-draft-overview.txt I hope this makes sense :) - - rigelk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTHrRnAAoJEHfJ0QE7gLd6mcMH/A3dlgu2UAJKo3JzR7RSdf8M 2V4xxw4d+vNNPqpIBRYsfJUVkRxePmAljntzsgTQ59AbibAjMt5uXI2htqYAGFia nsXvSIv0YkkPoE15morUtL8XYohRNvkSmaSKR2EqX/+Vxxm7C3Ftni4tlIbLB13k afK/ExDYV2+SoASS5myPqCaK3jusCmCeXlew2aDInbn7owGgtA4dxvti5TtfGaUi IMp/xXb3jimzIyzWbX+rKCvouVRK+ncdBxGzw+kPMtE6h5hja70M0Mw6IaREvJqA dj9mb5YU+OUoLrayVM/PcTML2gqYHhoXkSDQzqsWHLfbtxq0ymUWcnOe2d/WdGY= =JIQ8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----