Hello everyone, I would like to introduce myself as I have started working on syncany as well. I have the crazy idea of creating an application like Btsync but open source. Soon I learned that managing multiple versions of different files and determining which file needs to go to which peer is not an easy task. That is why I would like to add Bittorrent as a storage plugin to syncany.
I have started development here: https://github.com/christf/syncany So far the plugin is able to: * initialize * upload the metadata and torrent files * download the data using the bittorrent protocol There are still a couple of things to do. The following list is sorted by priority: * Seeding is not yet supported as I am still uncertain how this should be implemented. At the moment I am using an external torrent client for seeding during my experiments. I also implemented a Test program for seeding in java however this is not integrated into syncany at all and it also has some issues. Some kind of daemon is needed to handle the task of seeding data. * There is still a need for a central data store which is currently implemented using webdav technology. This storage holds torrent files, database files and the syncany configuration. A mechanism is needed to use a distributed storage technology for this data. * All multichunks that are going to be seeded must be kept locally. This means that currently there is a storage memory overhead of 100%. * As a torrent library I used ttorrent because it is under active development and it seems to be pretty stable. However at the moment no DHT is supported. For now a tracker must be used in the torrents. Lwjtorrent is a torrent library that is not quite as usable but its author is very active and willing to add DHT. It may happen that the torrent library will have to be switched in the future in order to allow DHT. If you feel like helping out coding or if you have an idea on how to accomplish those goals or even feedback to these ideas, let me know! Christof On Friday 31 January 2014 16:55:36 Vincent Wiencek wrote: > Dear all, > As you may know I'm working on a syncany client (gui) for > windows/ubuntu/macosx; > My branch is not (yet) merged into master branch (bu I hope it will (soon) > be sometime) and is available here ( > https://github.com/vwiencek/syncany/tree/gui) > Purpose of this post is double : > - look for good souls helping me in developping GUI : no specific > requirements except maybe knowing JAVA > - you can find TODO / Issues here ( > https://github.com/vwiencek/syncany/blob/gui/syncany-gui/TODO.md) and many > //TODO markers in code. > Do not hesitate to propose code fixes, corrections improvements, good ideas. > Vincent -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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