[Monotone-devel] Re: netsync status

[graydon hoare]

Torsten Rueger wrote:

> 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.

yes, reading your abstract there it does seem very similar.

> Apart from saying well done, I only wanted to ask whether you looked at 
> BEEP. 

only briefly, in an unrelated context. truthfully it didn't occur to me 
to layer netsync on top of it -- or any other protocol -- until I was 
well into the work. someone else suggested XMPP too, which could also 
theoretically work, but the baggage involved (and rather bulky encoding 
of objects) seemed not worthwhile.

-graydon