Great stuff! The reliability stuff seems to work *crosses fingers* and the web interface is looking good.
The end of my vacation will be coinciding more or less with yours, and by then I will have my Bsc, so then I'll have more time to get going again. :D Enjoy Canada and see you in three weeks, Pim On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Philipp Heckel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > long time no see! Before I go on my 3-week vacation, I wanted to let you > all know about the state of the project. Since it's been a while, there are > some updates. > > *1. Stability:* Number one goal is still stability and we have done quite > a bit of work to get there. We've made uploads/downloads a little more > fault tolerant (connection retries, especially important with "wobbly" > connections) and fixed a lot of integrity issues on the database layer. > Once in a while there are some issues with the "cleanup" (throwing away too > much metadata and such), but it's getting better. > > *2. Basic daemon:* In 0.1.4ff we have added a user daemon that can handle > many Syncany folders and run in the background. It can be started with `syd > start` and is available in the default installation. Configuration via > ~/.config/syncany/daemon.xml. > > *3. Daemon with WebSocket and REST API: *In the feature/daemon branch, we > started developing an extended daemon with a WebSocket and REST API that > can be used by user frontends to retrieve the status of the application or > asynchronously receive events. Via HTTP/REST, it can also deliver any file > in any version (e.g. "get file 123 in version 2"). Currently implemented > requests: "get file tree at specific date", "run CLI command", "get > database versions", "get file", "get file history", "list watched folders", > "restore file". > > *4. Web interface plugins:* By default, the daemon only offers the REST > and WebSocket API, but no web interface. However, web interfaces can be > plugged in using the plugin API. we started implementing a JavaScript-based > web interface in the "simpleweb" plugin. A first demo can be seen here: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NPVffywZVs -- this demo is a bit older; > as of today you can browse the tree at different times and restore now > works. Also, you can click on files to view them in different versions. > > That's the status as of today. We would love some help with the web > interface stuff (as it's something that can be worked on individually) or > all the other things. Also: If you look closely on GitHub, the "we" is > currently just an "I", so please consider helping out if you like what > we're doing. > > Well then, I'm off to Canada-eh! > > Best regards, > Philipp > > PS: Donations of any kind (Bitcoin, Flattr, Paypal) are much appreciated. > Check out https://www.syncany.org/#Contributing to find out how. > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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