iFolder on horay?

Martin Meredith martin at sourceguru.net
Sat Aug 6 11:16:47 UTC 2005


I might have a poke around if I can get the damn src our of the srpm :D

Ah - found a sourcer download, but yeah - the biggest pain is the
SimpleServer

jorge o. castro wrote:
> Matthew Nicholson wrote:
> 
>>anyone gotten ifolder up and running (including a server) on horay? any
>>packages out there? does anyone have  a guide/how to on everything? i'm
>>waiting to see what this software is like and how much better it can
>>make my life.
>>
> 
> 
> As someone pointed out I've got simpleserver working on hoary
> (http://www.whiprush.org/2005/07/post.html) and the client working on
> breezy. The client seems to need a newer mono, I've not yet been able to
> make it work on hoary. The only way to get simpleserver is via novell's
> cvs, see my blog post.
> 
> So far I have about 10 people on my simpleserver and it's a tad buggy.
> The client seems to work for most people, but some people get an icon in
> their notification area that does nothing. Keep in mind that
> simpleserver is intended for development work, so about every other day
> it blows up and I need to restart it. I'm assuming that bugginess in the
> client is due to me having to alien to rpm's. (Afterall, Novell is
> shipping it so I'm assuming that any bugs in the client are due to
> kludging it to make it run in ubuntu.) The client works fine for me in
> suse 9.3.
> 
> Building it from source is mostly painful, I have yet to find any
> tarball that will just build in breezy. I have to call a friend who is
> mono-smart to look at it and we make a bunch of changes to the Makefiles
> and whatnot to get it building.
> 
> If it built easily I would have already submitted something to the MOTUs
> for inclusion in universe, but it's beyond my skill level. Hopefully
> someone out there who is more capable of doing it will take the
> initiative to do the work. On top of that, simpleserver isn't exactly
> ideal, it's obvious that it was only designed for testing, adding users
> requires you to manually edit an XML file, which includes setting user
> passwords in there in plain text, and then restarting the server. Also,
> there does not appear to be any ssl support in simpleserver so
> everything is done in plain text.
> 
> When it does work though, it's pretty awesome, especially if you have
> multiple computers.
> 
> Since the client and simpleserver are both oss it should be relatively
> easy to make a generic server with all the goodies ... it sounds like a
> good Breezy+1 project for someone who's bored. :)
> 
> --
> jorge o. castro <jorge at whiprush.org>
> 
> PS - As a warning, I've also signed up for Novell's OES stuff, and if
> you're thinking about setting up a SLES9 server, and then adding OES,
> and then adding in ifolder, then you're due for some agony. Setting up
> simpleserver was alot less painful, and actually worked, for better or
> worse.
> 

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