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A package management tool

19 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 1 story, 18 comments · first 2015-11-15 · latest 2022-01-22

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  1. …apt-transport-ipfs: https://github.com/JaquerEspeis/apt-transport-ipfs Gx: https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx IPFS: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/InterPlanetary_File_System
    comment by westurner · 2022-01-22 · in MicroShift
  2. …IPFS is also used for the experimental gx package manager, which IPFS uses. https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx
    comment by hex12648430 · 2018-02-21 · in Paper review: IPFS – Content addressed, versioned, P2P file system
  3. There is https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx (based on IPFS instead of torrents, but they work extremely similarly for this use case)
    comment by detaro · 2018-02-10 · in GitHub shouldn't allow username reuse
  4. …a system that distributes and enforces these, like IPFS. Someone could just create some hooks for https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx and we would have it done.
    comment by fiatjaf · 2018-01-06 · in Many packages suddenly disappeared
  5. You're likely missing gx, the package manager used by IPFS and many projects in its community. Try: go get github.com/whyrusleeping/gx go get github.com/whyrusleeping/gx-go cd your-project/ gx install go build // or whatever you were doing…
    comment by lgierth · 2017-10-01 · in How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block
  6. …in Golang already[0] and I've also done some experiments to get this to work in JavaScript[1] - [0] https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx - [1] http://everythingstays.com
    comment by diggan · 2017-05-26 · in Npm v5.0.0 released
  7. https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx is pretty cool. You could handle it the same way that python handles it. Don't rely on a distro, have each person package their own stuff.
    comment by traverseda · 2016-04-18 · in GoBGP: BGP Implemented in Go
  8. Together with systems such as ipfs.io, possibly yes. Have a look at https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx But there still are many open problems: - incentivised file storage - fair name spaces - search and indexing and more.
    comment by 7373737373 · 2016-04-05 · in GitHub is down
  9. …maintainability. Many folks are working on getting there now, "gx" (package manager using IPFS https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx ), "ipmjs" (distributed package manager https://github.com/ipmjs/ipmjs/ ) and my own work "everythingstays"…
    comment by diggan · 2016-03-29 · in Changes to Npm's unpublish policy
  10. Why not GX? https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx (It's a language-agnostic packaging tool built around IPFS)
    comment by okket · 2016-03-28 · in Show HN: EverythingStays – Immutable and Distributed Node.js Modules with IPFS
  11. …and repos is very high priority for us. If you have ideas on that, i'd love to discuss things here: https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx/issues/47 Thanks!
    comment by whyrusleeping · 2016-03-23 · in Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS
  12. I got it. Gx [0] looks simpler and better without the craptocurrency stuff. [0]: https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx
    comment by nikolay · 2016-03-23 · in Spore – Decentralized package manager on Ethereum and IPFS
  13. …version) => /ipfs/... addresses. This lets you use simple names, and anyone can publish a repo. see https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx#repos > This is a great idea, but there's no mention of versioning. As a long-time advocate of what we…
    comment by noffle · 2016-03-23 · in Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS
  14. There is already gx package manager: https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx
    comment by niutech · 2016-03-23 · in I've Just Liberated My Modules
  15. …adding per-language support. It's already being used to manage dependencies on the go-ipfs project: https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx Bonus: there's also a IPFS git remote implementation! https://github.com/cryptix/git-remote-ipfs
    comment by noffle · 2016-03-23 · in I've Just Liberated My Modules
  16. In fact, gx[0] is such a package management system. [0]: https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx
    comment by NoGravitas · 2016-03-23 · in I've Just Liberated My Modules
  17. An example would be " https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx" , a Go package manager build on IPFS
    comment by advanderveer · 2016-03-23 · in Package managers should be immutable, distributed and decentralized
  18. …transport for ied. An example of a package manager that uses IPFS to distribute the packages is GX https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx - Still a WIP. If this is interesting to you, join us at IRC Freenode #IPFS, it would be great to bounce…
    comment by daviddias · 2015-11-15 · in Show HN: ied – an alternative package manager for Node