pypi on ipfs (and other py packaging)

[jbenet]

There's many points to interface here. maybe as a step 1 we can try integrating with http://doc.devpi.net . let's draft up a quick designdoc of the pieces, ideally before CCC so we can have a replica of PyPI with us. cc @hpk42

[AuHau]

I am starting an initiative to bring PyPi to IPFS, I would welcome any feedback or help. If you would like to incubate this as part of IPFS or IPFS Shipyard org let me know.

The initial proposal is currently here: AuHau/dpip#1

[momack2]

@achingbrain - it'd be great to get your thoughts on what parts of npm-on-ipfs you recommend emulating and if there's anything you recommend doing differently. @daviddias, @hsanjuan, and @warpfork have also been thinking a good bit about how to support package managers on IPFS and might have feedback.

[Jorropo]

@jbenet I think that a good idea, I'm working on somethings quite similar but more like synaptic TDOS and I will make a lib to manage repository and build my app on top of it, we should create a common one (I'm talking about the lib for managing the repo) because sharing some information about packages and share archive for installation will be near the same, all other things like installation, compatibility with existing tools (like be a transport for apt or pip) will be done externally.

[McSinyx]

I'm working on utilities to create downstream repository for Python binary distribution packages, i.e. a single-versioned subset of PyPI. It's still in an early stage of construction, but the development is done publicly and can be found here: https://sr.ht/~cnx/ipwhl