Scoop: Proposition : Use IPFS as an alternative to aria2
Hello!
I saw that aria2 could be used for faster downloads. aria2 is probably the fastest centralized downloader, but what about using a decentralized solution?
The Inter-Planetary File System is a proposed decentralized alternative to HTTP. It's very similar to BitTorrent, but better in every ways.
Some of its advantages are listed on ipfs.io and its GitHub repository. There's also efforts being made to bring IPFS to NixOS.
Could such a decentralized peer-to-peer system be beneficial to scoop?
NatoBoram
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Scoop strives to use official download sources whenever possible, which means using IPFS is a no-go for most applications. It's hard enough to convince application authors to distribute Windows releases as ZIP archives already (these are not required, but generally work better with Scoop).
Calinou
on 6 Oct 2018
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Scoop strives to use official download sources whenever possible, which means using IPFS is a no-go for most applications. It's hard enough to convince application authors to distribute Windows releases as ZIP archives already (these are not required, but generally work better with Scoop).