iFolder on horay?

[Martin Meredith]

I've gotten simias to build, but, iFolder itself is proving to be a PITA

Martin Meredith wrote:
> 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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