Re: Distributing substitutes over GNUnet

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hello,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> I think what I meant was "integration of GNUnet with guix publish".
>> Something which would allow anyone to effortlessly share what's been
>> built on their machine with the other Guix users. A zero config kind
>> of thing, with auto discovery of peers and available substitutes.
>
> Sure, I agree this is a worthwhile goal.  If you haven’t already, check
> out the GSoC by Rémy Birot-Delrue on this topic a couple of years ago:
>
>   https://gnu.org/software/guix/news/gsoc-update.html
>
> Rémy ended up with Guile bindings for GNUnet, along with a
> proof-of-concept publish and substitute process using GNUnet:
>
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-08/msg00455.html
>
> I know ng0 is very interested in this as well.  I’d love to work in this
> area!
>
> Ludo’.

This is a very interesting idea indeed! Thank you for the pointers. I've
taken a quick look at the  code Rémy created in 2015. I wonder if it's
still working. Looks like there are a some tests, so that's good! I'll have to 
try it!

Maxim

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