The majority of projects developing agents (Agentcoin, etc) are relying on PyPI for downloading packages.
Olas has an interesting integration with IPFS for package management - but it's relatively complex to upload new packages there (using open-autonomy).
This ticket involves implementation of a PoC of decentralized PyPI, using IPFS as storage layer.
Implementation would involve
-> bandersnatch (https://github.com/pypa/bandersnatch) is a PyPI-compatible server (nodes serving PyPI packages)
-> Inside bandersnatch, a storage-plugin for IPFS would have to be implemented (currently they have s3, filesystem, swift)
-> If package not found, then look for it in PyPI
Considerations:
-> What if node1 has package1 (via IPFS) and node2 does not? Some kind of gossip protocol would be beneficial.
-> We could expand this approach to npm, cargo and other package manager solutions.
gabrielfior
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1 month ago
The majority of projects developing agents (Agentcoin, etc) are relying on PyPI for downloading packages. Olas has an interesting integration with IPFS for package management - but it's relatively complex to upload new packages there (using
open-autonomy).This ticket involves implementation of a PoC of decentralized PyPI, using IPFS as storage layer. Implementation would involve -> bandersnatch (https://github.com/pypa/bandersnatch) is a PyPI-compatible server (nodes serving PyPI packages) -> Inside bandersnatch, a
storage-pluginfor IPFS would have to be implemented (currently they have s3, filesystem, swift) -> If package not found, then look for it in PyPIConsiderations: -> What if node1 has package1 (via IPFS) and node2 does not? Some kind of gossip protocol would be beneficial. -> We could expand this approach to npm, cargo and other package manager solutions.