[WIP]: experiment with collections

[dignifiedquire]

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[rklaehn]

I like the idea of removing the concept of collections from iroh-bytes iroh-blobs.

Other than moving things around this does not seem to change anything fundamentally.

[rklaehn]

I like the idea to move collection out of iroh-bytes. Also the idea of moving the export logic to the client side of the rpc boundary.

But I don't like moving it into iroh.

You should be able to work with collections without having to import all of iroh, including gossip, docs, ... Collections are fundamentally an iroh-blobs concept.

• So I would say: keep the simplification of the export API
• Keep collections in iroh-blobs under a feature flag, or move them into a separate crate, but not in iroh

WDYT?

[dignifiedquire]

how would you implement them then over RPC? if in iroh-blobs implemented, the only trait it can know about is the Store parts, but that is not enough to move them to client only, which the follow on step for me would be