Re: Guix & IPFS

[Pjotr Prins]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 09:59:04AM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> Hi Guix!
> 
> I'm in the process of packaging IPFS.
> It has about 100 dependencies, most of which are currently missing in
> Guix, so that's gonna take me some hours :p
> Thankfully Go is rather straightforward to package so that should be
> alright.
> 
> That said, the case of IPFS of particular: it uses it's own dependency
> manager "gx" which retrieves the specific versions of its deps over the
> IFPS protocol.

One thing gx does is make git a true blockchain with interesting
properties. In particular you can not edit git history and sharing
becomes more trust worthy. Distributed sharing will become possible
too.

  
https://medium.com/@mycoralhealth/learn-to-securely-share-files-on-the-blockchain-with-ipfs-219ee47df54c

We should certainly consider it. Even for our own repos.

Pj.