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Zig Package Manager Enhancements (ziglang.org)
9 points by jackhalford 132 days ago
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jackhalford 132 days ago
> In the future, it is planned to support peer-to-peer torrenting of dependency trees. By recompressing packages into a canonical form, this will allow peers to share Zig packages with minimal bandwidth. I love this idea because it simultaneously provides resilience to network outages, as well as a popularity contest. Find out which open source packages are popular based on number of seeders!

Really like this ideas, this space is lacking and we are silently looking at github stars, we can do better

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MrResearcher 132 days ago
That will lead to the same set of problems currently manifested in bit torrent'ing:

1. You'll have to expose a port externally. God only knows who will attempt to take over it.

2. You'll have spammers advertising addresses of known businesses in attempt to get everyone to spam (initiate connections with) them.

3. Sooner or later people start distributing content not related to Zig, which will attract acute attention from law enforcement agencies.

Consider these to be my predictions.

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hiccuphippo 128 days ago
1 and 2, I don't have any of these issues when I use torrents.

3, People already uses torrents for distribution of content unrelated to Zig, the Zig population is way smaller than the torrent population. Heck, people already uses git for unlawful content, that doesn't cause problem for the vast majority of git users.

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