SparkleShare

[Giles Orr]

On 10 February 2012 07:15, Syed Faisal Akber <faisal-nMFrlatgk0VeoWH0uzbU5w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 12-02-09 08:20 PM, Giles Orr wrote:
>>
>> On 9 February 2012 11:59, Christopher Browne<cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Giles Orr<gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone used SparkleShare?  It's essentially a DropBox replacement
>>>> that you run yourself, with git on the back end.  I got it installed
>>>> on Debian testing last night but had no time to experiment - glad
>>>> there was a package available as it, or its dependencies, sucked in a
>>>> variety of packages including mono and libbluray that suggested that
>>>> compiling it yourself wouldn't be pretty.  If anyone has used it, I'd
>>>> be interested in stories of installation, problems, client behaviour,
>>>> pretty much anything.
>>>
>>> There's a Debian package now; it seems to start up OK, and generates a
>>> couple of SSH keys.
>>>
>>> Then the X client closes off the initial configuration window, and
>>> doesn't appear to offer a way to open another window to get to the
>>> bits of the application involved in managing repositories.  So that's
>>> looking pretty vastly useless, at this point.
>>
>> This is precisely the point I reached this evening, and we both have
>> the same problem for the same reason: neither of us has Gnome.  I got
>> to the point in the documentation where it says "Click the
>> SparkleShare status icon ..."  I haven't found a solution to that one
>> yet.  The sparkleshare process is running, but I have no idea how to
>> invoke it to make changes, and Google hasn't been my friend so far.
>>
> I do use it.  It is nice but a bit buggy.  Which version are you using?
>
> I'm using 0.2 in Ubuntu, which seems to work okayish.  The problem I have is
> that the syncing between hosts is not always automatic as they claim it to
> be.  I sometimes have to manually do a push or a pull using the git
> command-line.
>
> Otherwise, it is a great tool.  I'm surprised that it hasn't been ported to
> Windows yet though.

I'm using v0.60, which is available in Debian testing.  The
SparkleShare website has a v0.80 which makes the Debian version sound
old, but it appears that the Debian one is only one rev behind and
only a couple months old.

There appear to be versions for both Windows and Android, although I
haven't tried either of them.

Interesting point for anyone who's considering trying it: the client
is a big fat install including Mono and some of Gnome (clearly you are
expected by the developer(s?) to have ALL of Gnome), but the server is
pure Git.  Which also means A) revision control, and B) easy recovery
of your data should the client go pear-shaped for some reason.

As a follow-up to my previous message, I've emailed the developer
about accessing the configuration window when you're not a Gnome user.
 No response yet, but it's only been about 12 hours.

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