On Wed, Jul 5, 2023, 19:06 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
I also agree with a later reply about avoiding the murkier side of blockchains / etc. That said, it seems to me (again, sample size one anecdata) that creating a more levelled playing field for package
On Thu, 6 Jul 2023 at 03:57, James Addison via Python-ideas <python-ideas@python.org> wrote: publication could benefit from the use of some distributed technologies. Even HTTP mirrors are, arguably, a basic form of that.. there's at least one question related to recency of data, though. Delaying availability of a package to an audience -- if it's important enough -- could under some circumstances become effectively similar to censorship.
A blockchain won't solve anything here. It would be completely and utterly impractical to put the packages themselves into a blockchain, so all you'd have is the index, and that means it's just a bad version of PyPI's own single-page index.
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Mostly agreed. A distributed hash table or similar, though, could be appropriate in combination with ideas similar to the accreting layers of self-reinforcing consensus that some blockchain technologies provide.