[cap-talk] announcing tiddly_on_tahoe v1.0

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:01 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood <
david.hopwood at industrial-designers.co.uk> wrote:

>
> Doesn't there need to be a user interface for getting an immutable view
> from a read-only or writable one?



You can currently do that by dropping down to the tahoe-lafs WUI.  Take a
URL like this one:

http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:7h7syiurogz5erc2au74tjwguu:h7bdxvjtvidlkcdbld3j2d5sbgyzsbqs7wdnu6yznqrejzssc5za/wiki.html

And manually delete the trailing filename "wiki.html".  From there you can
figure out how to get an immutable view.

Should something like that be added to the tiddly_on_tahoe UI?  I'm not
sure.  I guess it depends on how important immutable views turn out to be to
tiddly_on_tahoe users.

Here is a different "missing feature" in the tiddly_on_tahoe UI:

http://allmydata.org/trac/tiddly_on_tahoe/ticket/6

Quoting myself from that issue ticket:

"With the current version of tiddly_on_tahoe, there is a bit of "manual
labor" or "hassle" in the setup phase -- you have to create a Tahoe dir,
then upload the TW wiki.html file to it, then edit the URL manually to
append /wiki.html to the directory's URL.

tiddly_on_tahoe could do all of those steps automatically, at the press of a
single button! It could issue a REST command to its host to create a new
directory and then save a copy of itself to that directory. Once this is
implemented, then there will be a single button that you can press to
produce a clone of a given tiddly_on_tahoe instance. The new clone and the
original will live in separate Tahoe directories, which means access to them
can be separately granted or withheld. One could even imagine that this
makes tiddly_on_tahoe into a "viral" decentralized web app, where it is
trivial for unsophisticated users who look at one and like it to acquire
their own.

Is that not cool? I think that would be awesome. Someone should definitely
do it.
 But not me, right now, as I really need to finish Repairer for Tahoe-1.3.0
ASAP."


Regards,

Zooko
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