Compatibility w.r.t. JavaScript WebSocket protocol

[pkgw]

Hi,

I've been playing around a bit with trying to connect Rust programs to Automerge sync servers (namely, the public sync.automerge.org server).

The main branch seems to implement an older version of the sync protocol, while I see that pull request #67 seems to bring the codebase up to a newer version (possibly not the latest, though?). But while main has been getting updated pretty regularly, #67 has been stale for a long time.

Is anyone able to explain a bit about the status of things here? I get the impression that it's not as much of a priority to have the two implementations using compatible WebSocket protocols as I might naively think? Is there a different codebase I should be looking at?

[alexjg]

This project is not compatible with the latest automerge-repo JS, the JS protocol has changed significantly since this project was started and it hasn't been a priority to keep it compatible. That said, I am also interested in being able to write Rust programs which talk to JS programs and have been working on a very experimental re-implementation of automerge-repo-rs here. At some point I do expect to pull that work back into this project (or just wholesale replace this project with the code in Samod) but I can't give you timelines on that.

[pkgw]

Awesome, thanks for the pointer.

If you would like, I could put in a pull request to this repo with a README update mentioning this?

[alexjg]

Please do!