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Re:IPFS Project Roadmap by sideeffffect on Saturday April 13, 2019 @03:58AM (#19651676)
It's a bit sad, that Dhall (programmable configuration language for YAML & co.) used to use IPFS for its source/packages, but stopped, because of reliability :( (I'm wondering if there are/were others?)

> Early on in the language history we used IPFS to distribute the Dhall Prelude, but due to reliability issues we’ve switched to using GitHub for hosting Dhall code.

http://www.haskellforall.com/2019/01/dhall-year-in-review-20...

https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang/issues/162

I wish IPFS the best, because at least in theory this seems like a perfect use case

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Re:IPFS Project Roadmap by arianvanp on Saturday April 13, 2019 @06:43AM (#19652184)
We conducted initial experiments with moving nix package manager to ipfs, but also ran into too many issues.
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Re:IPFS Project Roadmap by xwvvvvwx on Saturday April 13, 2019 @06:46AM (#19652199)
Are these issues documented somewhere, would love to learn more. At first glance nix and ipfs seem like a perfect match
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Re:IPFS Project Roadmap by arianvanp on Saturday April 13, 2019 @10:38AM (#19653231)
Sure thing. I think most of the discussions have been cross-referen ed in this issue: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/859
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