Ludovic Courtès transcribed 0.6K bytes: > Hello, > > Pjotr Prins <[email protected]> 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. 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’. > > -- ng0 GnuPG: A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588 GnuPG: https://n0is.noblogs.org/my-keys https://www.infotropique.org https://krosos.org
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