Bug#779893: RFP: ipfs -- content-addressed global distributed file system
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : ipfs
Version : 0.2.3
Upstream Author : Juan Batiz-Benet <juan@benet.ai>
* URL : http://ipfs.io/
* License : MIT (Expat)
Programming Lang: Go
Description : content-addressed global distributed file system
Ipfs is a global, versioned, peer-to-peer filesystem. It combines good
ideas from Git, BitTorrent, Kademlia, SFS, and the Web. It is like a
single bittorrent swarm, exchanging git objects. IPFS provides an
interface as simple as the HTTP web, but with permanence built in. You
can also mount the world at /ipfs.
Ipfs is a really interesting project which can be compared to btsync
(proprietary), telehash or git-annex. I haven't personnally used it
(yet?) but I am very interested in its development. I know that at least
Joeyh has tried it out here:
http://git-annex.branchable.com/devblog/day_262__ipfs/
This specific WNPP would probably involve packaging the go
implementation, which seems the most complete:
https://github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/
I may try to package it, but I would need help at least to figure out
the go part, of which I am not very familiar with. Ideally, some go team
would pick it up instead of me.
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