--- Log opened Mon Apr 14 00:00:57 2014
15:05 < mcallan> conseo: i misunderstood yesterday; thought you were talking just about the reddit clone.  instead you were mostly talking about a supporting clojure host, or repo system
15:06 < mcallan> ok
15:08 < conseo> yes, although the reddit clone drove the design a bit as the first test case
15:11 < conseo> in general i want to be able to build applications where people can cooperate in their workflow independently like developers do with git
15:11 < conseo> the problem with git that i found is that it doesn't work well with data, it is very focused on source code (plain-text in a file-system tree)
15:13 < conseo> there is also https://github.com/creationix/js-git
15:13 < conseo> but this is already focused on making git source-code repositories available, not on building distributed applications with a database
15:16 < conseo> anyhow, this is probably not what you care about, don't know. but for me it reflects very well on the design issues with votorola, which in some ways tried to reproduce distributed repository semantics to form a consensus-focused process as social web app
15:18 < mcallan> yes, the two apps (distributed rev control, votorola) have a similar communication structure (p2p) and may use similar tools underneath (diff/patch) ...
15:18 < mcallan> but they serve a somewhat different purpose
15:19 < mcallan> similar for the data sharing app you are talking about, i guess
15:21 < conseo> yes
15:21 < conseo> diff + patching is one way to track changes, more general is an application of functions in transactions
15:22 < conseo> git or mercurial can be covered by this, but also very different work-flows, e.g. working on gigabytes of scientific data without transmitting the whole changed data-ste, but just the transformation function and parameters
15:24 < conseo> it was interesting to build a wiki on it, or/and extend the reddit clone to a social network
15:24 < conseo> it has the same namespaces like the pollwiki: user/repo-id
--- Log closed Tue Apr 15 00:00:14 2014