Either way, ideally, zim should support simultaneous access to the files, for example in a NFS or SMB shared filesystem.
2012/3/1 Svenn Bjerkem <svenn.bjer...@googlemail.com> > On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 08:02 +0000, João Santos wrote: > > The problem with unison is that it is no longer actively developed. > > And beside that an automatic syncing method would probably be better > > for the average user. > > Well, git is also not automatically updating, but SparkleShare > developers put infrastructure around it to make it a Dropbox clone for > private networks. There are voices on the SparkleShare channels that > raise the unison issue from time to time. I personally like unison > better than git, as a git repository collect overhead on commits. This > overhead gets really big as time moves on. If the SparkleShare box > contains binary data which happens to be updated from time to time, > there is going to be a huge overhead. Nice thing is that there is always > previous versions available, so no need to use the vcs plugin in zim, at > least for me. > > It is not necessarily negative that a package is not developed anymore > as long as it is packagable on newer distributions. Stable and function > complete software is the best there is. No surprises. (Unless there are > bugs, of course.) > > Automatic sync is a necessity, Dropbox made that pretty clear. I moved > most of my non-sensitive things to Dropbox from unison and life became > quite different. No forgotten updates anymore. > > -- > Svenn > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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