[Monotone-devel] dump/nuskool transport protocol revival

[Zbigniew Zagórski]

Hi,

Just a small query or heads up request about easier setup of monotone servers. Now when we have netsync, it is sometimes PITA to setup synchronization (unless ssh is in place).

We had this dumb protocol and implementation in python [1] that served me well for some time but now it is abandoned; and what is more important it is not available to anyone except me and maybe some hardcore "archeologist" who remembers monotone history.

Is there any interest in having this reliable (but not high performance) HTTP/SFTP synchronization transport for monotone ? I even thought about implementing in in core of monotone but actually at that time "nuskool" was the way to go ... but the nuskool is far from ready (and AFAIR requires policy branches)...

 "dumb" is ready and can be available in week (as python) in few months (as native solution)

[I know about nuskool but i don't remembers what was significant difference from dumb protocol]

(tigger for this discussion: i just lost my monotone central "repository" manager by usher :/ and thus lost any _sane_ option to synchronize windows boxes :/ ...)

[1] https://code.monotone.ca/p/monotone/source/tree/h:net.venge.monotone.dumb/

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