[Owncloud] csync and mirall: Desktop Syncing beta versions released

[Thomas Müller]

I'll take care about the Debian package.
Ubuntu can grab it from Debian! ;-)

Tom

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Thomas Müller                 E-Mail: thomas.mueller at tmit.eu

Am Donnerstag, den 23.02.2012 um 16:06 schrieb Klaas Freitag:
> Hi,
> 
> I am happy to let you know that there are beta versions of both csync 
> and mirall available. csync is a file synchronization tool written by 
> Andreas Schneider to which we added an ownCloud module so that ownCloud 
> now can be synced with the command line tool csync:
> 
> $> csync ~/ownCloud owncloud:/localhost/files/webdav.php
> 
> Mirall is a Qt based sync client that makes use of the csync library. It 
> runs as a tray icon, lets you connect to your ownCloud, manage your 
> folders you want to sync between the local machine and the cloud and 
> gives status information.
> 
> This is an early beta for you to test.
>          PLEASE DO NOT use in production.  IT WILL EAT YOUR FILES!!
> 
> The sources are available at [1]. In the openSUSE Build Service binary 
> packages for currently openSUSE 12.1 and Fedora 16 are available.
> Note that HEAD ownCloud is needed, version 3 does not do it ;-(
> 
> _What does it do?_
> 
> Csync both brings a command line client and a lib. With the csync cmd 
> client, local directories can be synced to ownCloud directories like this:
> 
> $> csync ~/ownCloud owncloud://localhost/files/webdav.php/ownCloud
> 
> Mirall is the desktop app for syncing, it makes use of csyncs lib. If 
> you start it, you get a tray icon with a gray folder. Clicking on it 
> lets you connect to your ownCloud. Clicking on the tray icon after the 
> cloud is connected, you get a status dialog which shows you the current 
> state of your sync dirs and lets you add more.
> 
> _What should be tested?_
> 
> The csync module for ownCloud went upstream to csync and we're planing 
> to do a release with it soon. Syncing to ownCloud should work with it on 
> commandline as well with mirall.
> 
> In mirall, connecting to an ownCloud, adding and removing folders and 
> the status dialog should work. Installation of ownCloud was not in the 
> focus. SSL should work, on commandline use ownclouds://... to enable SSL
> 
> PLEASE NOTE that this is beta software. Don't expect too much from it,
> but I think it helps to get a common understanding of where we are 
> heading to, so that we can discuss early.
> 
> _How can you help?_
> 
> Yes, your help is very appreciated. Please test, fix code, document and 
> spread the word. Please report bugs to bugs.owncloud.com, Component 
> "Desktop Client".
> 
> Very much appreciated would be help in the area of packaging, ideally in 
> the OBS. We have openSUSE and Fedora, but others, especially Debian and 
> Ubuntu packagers would be great. Please contact me...
> 
> Also help would be appreciated for porting: Mirall should run on Windows 
> and Mac as well. If there is a Mac specialists out there who wants to 
> help, please speak up. We need you :-)
> 
> _Thanks_
> 
> ...to Andreas Schneider and Dominik Schmidt who greatly helped to get 
> the whole stuff going...
> 
> best regards,
> 
> Klaas
> 
> 
> [1] The sources are here:
> https://api.opensuse.org/public/source/isv:ownCloud:devel/mirall/mirall-0.1.9.tar.bz2
> and
> https://api.opensuse.org/public/source/isv:ownCloud:devel/csync/csync-0.49.9.tar.bz2
> [2] https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=isv%3AownCloud%3Adevel
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