Re: Rewrork DropBox code to send direct to subversion?

[Rian Hunter <rian MIT EDU>]

Hey John

The Dropbox client isn't completely free software. The Nautilus plugin  
is at most a good example of how to write an asynchronous plugin for  
Nautilus that communicates via IPC with another process, and to a  
lesser extent a demonstration of using the Nautilus plugin API. Other  
than that, no synchronization logic is contained in the Nautilus  
plugin itself. Unfortunately the bulk of the logic is contained in a  
separate binary blob that (usually) happens to be executable.

With that said, it probably wouldn't be much work to write a daemon  
that mimics the stream protocol used by Dropbox but instead backends  
to mercurial, git, or even subversion (eww...) :D

Rian

On Nov 11, 2008, at 10:12 PM, John Pye wrote:
> Hi all
>
> It would be pretty cool if the Dropbox client for Nautilus could be
> reworked to produce a simple no-brain system for storing one's files  
> in
> a Subversion repository. Their code is available and open source under
> the GPL.
>
> http://www.getdropbox.com/install?os=lnx
>
> So we could use their code and substitute the Dropbox backend with a
> subversion (or other VCS) backend! Coupled then with ViewVC on the
> serverside, one would then have a very straightforward backup system
> without requiring a commercial service, and using internal resources,
> suitable for the case where data is sensitive etc.
>
> This would be a really great enhancement for Linux, would be fairly
> simple to implement, and wouldn't even particularly annoy the DropBox
> people, because their big 'plus' is the cross-platform compatibility  
> of
> their tool.
>
> Maybe this could be proposed as a GSoC project next year, unless there
> is someone keen to work on it sooner?
>
> Cheers
> JP
>
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