Goal: resolve Kwil and Truf branding issue

[zolotokrylin]

Problems:

• Problem: Kwil SDK is not wrapped into TNS SDK #81
• Problem: TSN branding is not applied to the binary, admin tool, and CLI #82

[zolotokrylin]

As we know we will need to rebrand Kwil into TSN at least at the places where our interface the product. These users might include:

• Data Consumers
• Developers
• Data Providers
• Node Operators
• ... ?

[brennanjl]

Have discussed this with Cameron quite a bit. What we have come to is:

• Kwil will provide the ability to custom brand all three developer tools (the binary, admin tool, and main CLI). Truflation will be able to build and distribute these with custom names and root commands. Nested commands and documentation that are not related to the root command will remain unchanged; this would impose a very high maintenance burden on the Truflation team. We should have this doable in 1-1.5 weeks, with our v0.7.1 release.
• Truflation should wrap the JS SDK with their own SDK. I would highly encourage this, as it allows you to conform to your own terminology, developer experience, and release cycles.
• Truflation will adopt Kuneiform. This is also primarily for maintenance reasons; we are constantly improving it, so you can simply leverage our documentation as it evolves.
• Truflation is free to use Kwil's other tooling as-is (IDEs, database explorers, etc.). You're welcome to fork it and make it Truflation branded (AFAICT everything is open source).

[zolotokrylin]

Thank you, Brennan, for the memo. I have created problems so that we can manage each issue separately.

[zolotokrylin]

@brennanjl : aprrox. middle of May 2024

[zolotokrylin]

@zolotokrylin a related question: if you are onboarding other nodes, do you need the binary to be Truflation branded? e.g. right now, when you run the binary, you run

kwild ...

Previously, we discussed making this customizable, so that you could do:

tsnd ...

This got put on the back burner by Cameron, but will this become a priority?

Originally posted by @brennanjl in #393 (comment)

We already have this thread, so let's continue here.

I don't think it is as important and urgent as the following things, where I would like your help first, please:

• Problem: nodes and indexers are prone to crashes #403
• https://github.com/truflation/website/issues/577
• Problem: Date function is not supported #344
• Problem: Official Stream contracts can be dropped #223
• Goal: onboard Kwil as Node Operator #393
• Goal: procedural lang to support smart-contract like UX #164
• Problem: missing Kwil schema constructor #51
• Problem: unable to customize primitive data source weights #50
• And wrap up of the Specs here:
• • Goal: real-time Indexes and Primitives #199

After these issues are resolved, we can come back to this Goal.

Thank you 🙏