From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: I can haz cloud idea
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:54:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87boozszv7.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <smur4xv3sc6.fsf@linuxpal.mit.edu>
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:55:53 -0500 Greg Troxel <gdt@work.lexort.com> wrote:
GT> I thin the key question here is
GT> Is what gnus-sync needs just a network filesystem, or something
GT> special?
GT> If it works with a filesystem, then one can use all sorts of things,
GT> depending on what makes sense. Some people might want sync but not have
GT> an IMAP account (but then they probably have a news-only use case). But
GT> IMAP seems like a good place, as many people will already have it set
GT> up.
GT> I think the hard part is the conflict/merge model, for use with clients
GT> in different places.
gnus-sync.el works against backends. The idea is to be flexible, so it
should work against any storage. CouchDB happens to be the best
schemaless document storage available today for our purposes, especially
because of the built-in REST methods but also because JSON is a good
portable format.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-16 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-16 5:03 Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-16 6:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-16 8:19 ` Antoine Levitt
2012-02-16 9:27 ` Steinar Bang
2012-02-16 9:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-16 7:00 ` Vegard Vesterheim
2012-02-17 17:49 ` Richard Riley
2012-02-19 15:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-19 18:04 ` Andy Moreton
2012-02-19 22:15 ` Dan Christensen
2012-02-20 7:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-20 19:20 ` Dan Christensen
2012-03-10 1:18 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-20 7:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-20 7:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-19 19:03 ` Adam Sjøgren
2012-02-21 21:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-03-10 1:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-10 12:43 ` Reiner Steib
2012-03-10 13:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-07-18 14:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-07-18 20:52 ` Steinar Bang
2012-02-16 8:25 ` David Engster
2012-02-16 9:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-16 9:23 ` David Engster
2012-02-16 9:29 ` Steinar Bang
2012-02-16 9:25 ` Steinar Bang
2012-02-16 11:55 ` Greg Troxel
2012-02-16 12:23 ` David Engster
2012-02-16 12:54 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2012-02-16 12:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-02-16 13:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-02-20 7:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-25 9:46 ` Steinar Bang
2012-03-10 1:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-03 3:20 ` TSUCHIYA Masatoshi
2012-03-10 1:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-15 23:31 ` TSUCHIYA Masatoshi
2014-10-16 8:34 ` Steinar Bang
2014-10-16 12:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
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