From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81416 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: I can haz cloud idea Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:54:04 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87boozszv7.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87fwebnzd8.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1329397033 30258 80.91.229.3 (16 Feb 2012 12:57:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:57:13 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29696@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Feb 16 13:57:11 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ry0sM-0002ij-SC for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:55:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ry0rm-0007xk-Ku; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:55:18 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ry0rl-0007xb-L7 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:55:17 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Ry0rh-0005Vn-G0 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:55:17 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ry0rg-0004dS-2V for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:55:12 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ry0rX-0001Os-W8 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:55:04 +0100 Original-Received: from c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net ([76.28.40.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:55:03 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:55:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zUPSjvQC+eodN9Lm9NxThFNWamk= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81416 Archived-At: On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:55:53 -0500 Greg Troxel 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