Re: Conduit on Jolicloud

[John Stowers <john stowers gmail com>]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Andrew Stormont
<astormont svn gnome org> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Sorry for the (very) delayed response. I think we are now at the point where
> we want to bring conduit into the picture.
>
>> Yes, but you need to define a little more by what you mean by daemon mode.
>
> What I'd like to do is split conduit into two packages so we'd have
> 'conduit'
> and 'conduit-gui' since we're going to provide our own interface.

Cool, although packaging is a distributor decision, not really up to me.

If you want to split conduit into two packages, then
 * ship the conduit/gtkui directory in the conduit-gui package (and
data, icons, etc)
 * ship everything else in the conduit-base package

>
> Our interface will be /very/ proprietary so I'm afraid we wont be able to
> give it
> back to the project but I'll be upstreaming any changes made on the conduit
> side
> - and there should be a few since we have a shed load of data-providers to
> write.

Sounds great. This is the motivation to finally commit the udev branch
that fixes iphone support and depricates HAL.

John

>
>> Done, just pushed this.
>
> Thanks.  I now have my ssh access sorted :)
>
> Andy
>
> On 29 March 2010 22:51, John Stowers <john stowers gmail com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Andrew Stormont
>> <astormont svn gnome org> wrote:
>> > Hi John,
>> >
>> > I'm now working for Jolicloud (http://www.jolicloud.com/) and we want
>> > integrate Conduit into our OS,
>> > which I think is great... should mean some more commits from me and the
>> > team
>> > :)
>>
>> Great!
>>
>> >
>> > A couple of questions:
>> >  - Box.net - how well does it work?  We want to back users data up to
>> > box.net but it has to be reliable.
>>
>> It seems to work well (in that it passes the tests) and I just furthur
>> tested it to find it working.
>>
>> >  - Daemon mode - We want conduit to run in the background and perform
>> > backups silently, can we do this?
>>
>> Yes, but you need to define a little more by what you mean by daemon mode.
>>  - Running without the UI - yes
>>  - Running in a VT with no DISPLAY (no, maybe, this used to work but
>> seems broken in some library we use at the moment)
>>
>> Basically the DBus interface is full enought that you can start
>> conduit in daemon mode (-d) and then construct everything you need
>> over DBus (in either the GUI or hidden syncset). If you then
>> subsequently launch conduit it will show the contents of the GUI
>> syncset.
>>
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Andy
>>
>> John
>>
>> >
>> > PS:
>> > I also have a favor to ask: Can you possibly add me to the credits in
>> > the
>> > About Box?
>> > I forgot to do this previously and I can't do it myself until my keys
>> > have
>> > been updated.
>>
>> Done, just pushed this.
>>
>> >
>
>