Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync status

[Torsten Rueger]

Moi,

again I am astonished at how close this is to the system were building 
(http://pdis.hiit.fi , but it's a shame that the beef is not public, 
yet).
All the main ideas are exactly the same: bi-directional, stateless, 
hashed index tree (except we haven't implemented that yet, only 
"exchange all" and boy does that su..). It's just so surprising, seeing 
that monotone is a version control system and pdis a synchronisation 
engine.

Apart from saying well done, I only wanted to ask whether you looked at 
BEEP. We used to use a beep (python) implementation and it worked very 
well. Beep is a application protocol framework with exactly the 
"needed" ideas for this kind of thing. Ie: anyone can initiate a 
connection, then equal partners. One way messages, rpc and one to many 
style are supported. The nice thing about it, it can take care of 
security (and version) negotiation and at least has the potential to be 
proxied.
Anyway, just wanted to ask whether you looked at it. I'm not suggesting 
using it, as it may be quite complex (especially in C), both in terms 
of using the library and the dependencies it brings along.

Torsten