Dat v14 -- breaking changes

[okdistribute]

The network of dat v14 will not be compatible with earlier versions of dat. The .dat metadata file will still work, but older clients should upgrade to v14.

It will have big improvements:

• Better connectivity: A better DHT and holepunching. The networking stack has been entirely rewritten. See https://github.com/hyperswarm/hyperswarm
• Deprecating the dat share command. Now, dat share and dat sync do the same thing, so you no longer have to remember if your directory has a dat in it already.

[RangerMauve]

LGTM! I'll update the SDK to use hyperswarm too at some point in the near future. 💜

[decentral1se]

Got myself a fresh copy of node v12.16.1 and tried to npm install this branch and got confronted with a whole slew of errors. Here are the logs below. Probably I'm doing it wrong ❓

https://gist.github.com/decentral1se/8e45d5527c30414a8d2793b6e6a2999c

If I could get past this it'd be cool to test because I was struggling to get connectivity sorted from my homebrew here in the house. Thanks for the good work!

[okdistribute]

@decentral1se ah looks like it's still trying to install discovery-swarm. can you rm -rf node_modules and rm package-lock.json, and then reinstall?

[decentral1se]

Unfortunately, I still explode into flames: https://gist.github.com/decentral1se/90322a42bb8112239a64dedf7edc1e7d. Not sure what I'm doing TBH :)

[okdistribute]

@decentral1se Oh I figured it out, dat-doctor is installing discovery-swarm.

[okdistribute]

okay @decentral1se this should be ready for testing now, my apologies

[decentral1se]

Yep that installs! I could share some test folders! It's a bit hard to test with friends who can't go through this installation procedure to check if we can share what was problematic to share before. Also the dat doctor is gone now, so I can't check if those issues are resolved (was seeing a "cannot find public ip / port" message) :) If this could go out on a new release of dat-desktop, I'd definitely be able to give it more testing.

[christianbundy]

Installs and passes test over here. 🎉

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(If you'd like any help testing something, please let me know. I've been meaning to spend more time checking out this stack.)