On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:11:40 +0100, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schins...@gmail.com> wrote: > I hadn't actually considered DesktopCouch to be dependent on Ubuntu One. > I considered Ubuntu Ones database synchronization service to be > dependent on the DesktopCouch, but not vice versa. Much the same way, I > don't expect my home directory to be dependent on Ubuntu One file > synchronization service.
people will still be able to install desktopcouch and couchdb-bin and use it as they could now, either locally or syncing peer-to-peer with the bluetoothish pairing tool (desktopcouch-pair, from package desktopcouch-tools) we wrote for that use case. I don't understand what upsets you so much about it being in universe instead of main. > While I can understand the reasons why you feel it necessary to pull the > plug on the db sync service, it is not immediately obvious to me why > that would necessarily result in you dropping support for local storage > in personal databases on the desktop. I don't see anything wrong with > DesktopCouch itself. the problems on the desktop are more evident on smaller devices > By the way, what is going to happen with the > server-side software that you're now abandoning? Will you GPL it and > release it so that others can benefit from the work? After all, even if > you couldn't make it scale to millions of databases, it might still be > useful as a residential sync service, for example. our server database was apache couchdb, plus a couple of patches written for us by couchio/couchbase/membase that they didn't think were generally reusable outside of our datacentre (and require significant rework to apply to newer couches) > My goal is to create software > using tools that are available for many platforms, such as Python, GTK > and CouchDB. I would then like to enable the users to sync their data > between all their devices, across platforms. [...] From my > perspective, the stack I referred to earlier, which you until very > recently have been advocating, _does_ work. and there's no reason for you not to use it, if it works for you. > Tell me you're going to GPL and release your server-side db-sync stuff, > and I'll have all my enthusiasm back and stop nagging. :) it really is just apache couchdb.
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