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dpcreator on the terminal? #859

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mccalluc opened this issue Nov 16, 2023 · 0 comments
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dpcreator on the terminal? #859

mccalluc opened this issue Nov 16, 2023 · 0 comments

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Discussed this with Raman yesterday: We might consider reconceptualizing DPCreator as a terminal application.

  • We are refocusing on a model where sensitive data always stays local: While this is possible with a webapp / electron, the choice of platform itself might cause users to worry that data might leak.
  • The question-and-answer interface we already have translates well to an terminal application.
  • Webapp development is more difficult than terminal application development in general.
  • We could just use python and avoid the complexity of making an OpenDP web assembly build.
  • This needn't be an endpoint: We could consider it a kind of wireframe that makes it easier to focus on the questions for the user, and leaves the UI details for later.

With a terminal application, we could also ask what the output should be: One possibility is that the application does not use opendp itself, but instead outputs a python script which actually has import opendp. This would be in line with #852. Execution could be passed to the script with https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.execl or similar.

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