so... this might sound weird and perhaps could be seen like a kasfaesque, controlling nightmare on some level... but not thinking too much about it that way, i would very much enjoy to interchange code nolonger as tars or compilation artefacts, but instead as whole fossil repositories, including their wiki, documentation, ... everything one would need to survive a 1 year trip to another planet, without a fast connection to the earthnet. a traveller should have to rely on their equipment to be documented to enable service in the field with facilities to load updates and patches if connectivity allows.

exchange that sqlite file and the local key and you got it, or let a local server running to let it percolate the changes off of your very slow earthnet connection while still being able to interact with the repo in another terminal (im pretty sure this works, would have to try it myself with my phones' edge connection and though the local server would be a clone off of some server on the internet with a domainname prefferably, so the local workflow would have to include a way to keep the local server busy on the wan connection to keep the sync happening when needed...)

anyway.. there is this story that keeps popping into my mind from time to time, about some military organisation keeping instructions to decode the data on the tape stored on their tapes or something, and i very much like the idea of plastering every piece of equipment with plans on how they work and how to fix them when they dont. so a usb stick with fossil repositories filled with information on how to use their contents to have a good time sounds like an improvement over cd with a manual in a box. the stick would also need some sort of interface program to interact with the newfangled "field-servicable" executable-format i just proposed, for pooping out exes and bins and dmgs on a machine that does not yet support fossilized sourcecode and relies on plain old executables instead...

i had this in my drafts for a bit and since then i have read some article about cuban SNET, very interesting stuff, but i misplaced the link. an archiving browser would be nice...