alimony/asterist

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Asterist is an IPFS client for Mac. It should currently be considered pre-alpha software, or rather a proof of concept; it is nowhere near usable yet. The idea is to bundle the reference implementation of IPFS with the application so that no one has to build or download anything except Asterist itself.

Launching Asterist will also launch ipfs in daemon mode and then communicate with it through HTTP, which happens to be how the command line version of ipfs interfaces with itself when the daemon is running. All commands conveniently map to HTTP endpoints, meaning that support for any command in ipfs is relatively easy to add to Asterist.

I want to stress again that this is just a proof of concept and should not be considered usable software. Hopefully it can stabilize along with the implementation of IPFS and turn into an actual client someday.

Building

1. Make sure you have CocoaPods installed; if not, run sudo gem install cocoapods and pod setup
2. Install dependencies by running pod install in the Asterist root directory
3. Fetch git submodules by running git submodule update --init
4. Open the Xcode project through Asterist.xcworkspace (not the .xcodeproj) and run Build

The first build will take a while since all of Go is being built as well. go-ipfs will then be fetched through the go get command and the resulting ipfs binary copied into the application bundle. You should now be able to run Asterist. Note that Go and go-ipfs will only be built once, to rebuild these you must run Clean before Build in Xcode.