iFolder on horay?

[Martin Meredith]

I've managed to build a simias package for breezy (which includes the
server)

once It's been checked out by tseng, I'm going to go ahead and start
building an iFolder package... uploading to REVU now

Martin Meredith wrote:
> 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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