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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:39:24 +0100
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Google command line client
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cinap produced a smaller faster webfs for use with abaco and my webdav fs,
it has persistant tcp sessions so is much faster, and it also has some auth
code from me that works rather better than the labs code.

highly reccomended.


On 29 Mar 2012, at 10:36 PM, John Floren <john@jfloren.net> wrote:

> Turns out Google command line client
> (http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/) works on Plan 9 just fine. All
> you need is python (from fgb's contrib, or if you want to risk
> potentially out-of-date code I've got a tarball at
> http://jfloren.net/contrib/packages/lang/python/root.tgz, just untar
> it and copy the files under root/ to the appropriate places)
>
> First, download the gdata client library version 2.0.14
> (http://gdata-python-client.googlecode.com/files/gdata-2.0.14.tar.gz).
> This is an older version, but it's needed for compatibility reasons.
> Untar it, then run "python setup.py install".
>
> Next, download the actual command line client
> (http://googlecl.googlecode.com/files/googlecl-0.9.13.tar.gz as of
> today), untar it, and once again run "python setup.py install".
>
> You can then run /sys/lib/python/bin/google, which will give you a
> prompt. For kicks, you can enter something like 'docs edit --title
> "testing" --editor sam' to make and edit a quick text document. The
> first time, it will prompt you for an account name and then give you a
> link to authorize the client. I couldn't get the authorization link to
> work in abaco, I had to enter it in Firefox, but there may be a way to
> get abaco to work.
>
> You can also do something like '/sys/lib/python/bin/google calendar
> list' from an rc prompt, so whipping up a guide file for Acme will be
> very easy.
>
>
>
> John