EverythingStays
Dev tools
package manager
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
4 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 21 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Idea: 2 for, 4 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
IPFS works well for file sharing
From 1 comment
Anecdotal: been running IPFS for a year, and it is simply great. Its my go-to for file-sharing these days, it just works so well. I don't think its going to go away any time soon…
fit2rule on HN
Objections
IPFS has little adoption and is risky to build on
From 2 comments
If you want to build a solution that lasts, building it on top of a new, unproven and not widely adopted technology like IPFS seems a risky choice at least. It is already not to…
danbruc on HNThat really doesn't change that it has zero adoption. It's hard to quantify but I just searched the programming languages ranked 90 to 100 in the TIOBE index on Google, they have…
danbruc on HN
Unpopular modules may disappear without a central node
From 1 comment
> a module should live on, for as long as people are seeding the module and using it. More popular modules will be seeded by more people, making it faster to download. So if you…
rmsaksida on HN
No clear way to signal malicious or broken versions
From 2 comments
Let's say though that someone publishes a trojan module? And for a while it becomes used in a bunch of other modules or what not, how does one handle that situation? In that case…
bhouston on HNHeh, I saw the "able to remove modules" under Problems Trying to Solve in https://github.com/EverythingStays/EverythingStays and thought you meant that was a feature not a bug. I…
jamespitts on HN
Requests
Automatic updates to latest version when hashes replace version numbers
From 1 comment
If I use a package manager over decentralized systems (like ipfs), and a decentralized system use hash instead of version number. how I can automatically update to the last…
juanpabloaj on HN
WebTorrent-based version
From 1 comment
Would love to see something similar based on WebTorrent
diegorbaquero on HN
Questions
Why not use GX instead
From 2 comments
Why not GX? https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx (It's a language-agnostic packaging tool built around IPFS)
okket on HNWhy can't GX and this tool store packages in the same format, so one can use packages from the other?
fiatjaf on HN
How are namespaces and identity handled
From 1 comment
How are you handling security-related issues such as user identity and IPFS namespaces, particularly as they relate to systems outside of IPFS (i.e. github)? Is there a method by…
jamespitts on HN
Alternatives named
GX
From 1 comment
Why not GX? https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx (It's a language-agnostic packaging tool built around IPFS)
okket on HN
IPM / ipmjs
From 1 comment
Nice initiative! Just want to tip you and others about IPM - Immutable Package Manager. We are a group of people trying to do just this, we have a lot of healthy discussions…
reimertz on HN
CPAN and CTAN
From 1 comment
If you want to build a solution that lasts, building it on top of a new, unproven and not widely adopted technology like IPFS seems a risky choice at least. It is already not to…
danbruc on HN
WebTorrent
From 1 comment
Would love to see something similar based on WebTorrent
diegorbaquero on HN