* LDAP support / configuration sharing ? @ 2002-06-10 18:19 Chris Majewski [not found] ` <vafsn3t503j.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Chris Majewski @ 2002-06-10 18:19 UTC (permalink / raw) Is configuration sharing via LDAP or some other mechanism available or in the works? I'm still looking for a proper way to share my Gnus configuration (article count, etc. etc.) between work and home. My current solution (push/pull .newsrc et al. after/before running Gnus) does not work because it requires me to always remember to shutdown Gnus when leaving work or home. If it is not available, can one of the developers help me get started writing a patch? -chris ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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* Re: LDAP support / configuration sharing ? [not found] ` <vafsn3t503j.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> @ 2002-06-11 17:16 ` Peter Boettcher 2002-06-11 19:11 ` Chris Majewski 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Peter Boettcher @ 2002-06-11 17:16 UTC (permalink / raw) Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Chris Majewski <majewski@cs.ubc.ca> writes: > >> Is configuration sharing via LDAP or some other mechanism available >> or in the works? > > That sounds way cool. For some backends, the marks are stored in the > server, but this is not the case for NNTP. > > How about you start discussing your ideas on the Gnus mailing list, > I'm sure someone will contribute. This is exactly what the ACAP protocol is intended for. I don't know any details, but that's a starting point. I'm not sure if it ever matured or is in use, but here it is: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/acap/ -- Peter Boettcher MIT Lincoln Laboratory boettcher@ll.mit.edu (781) 981-5275 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: LDAP support / configuration sharing ? 2002-06-11 17:16 ` Peter Boettcher @ 2002-06-11 19:11 ` Chris Majewski [not found] ` <ilubsaheh4b.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Chris Majewski @ 2002-06-11 19:11 UTC (permalink / raw) [-- Warning: decoded text below may be mangled, UTF-8 assumed --] [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii, Size: 941 bytes --] Peter Boettcher <boettcher@ll.mit.edu> writes: > Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > > > Chris Majewski <majewski@cs.ubc.ca> writes: > > > >> Is configuration sharing via LDAP or some other mechanism available > >> or in the works? > > > > That sounds way cool. For some backends, the marks are stored in the > > server, but this is not the case for NNTP. > > > > How about you start discussing your ideas on the Gnus mailing list, > > I'm sure someone will contribute. > > This is exactly what the ACAP protocol is intended for. I don't know > any details, but that's a starting point. I'm not sure if it ever > matured or is in use, but here it is: > > http://asg.web.cmu.edu/acap/ Looks fine, though I've never heard of acap, and a lot of people are using ldap now, so what's wrong with ldap? If one of the gnus developers knows acap and can help me implement it for gnus, that's fine too. -chris ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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* Re: LDAP support / configuration sharing ? [not found] ` <ymhu1o91lwn.fsf@okocim.cs.ubc.ca> @ 2002-06-12 6:45 ` those who know me have no need of my name 2002-06-12 14:16 ` Kai Großjohann 1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: those who know me have no need of my name @ 2002-06-12 6:45 UTC (permalink / raw) in gnu.emacs.gnus i read: >Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes: >> For HTTP? I think the user would need to find a HTTP server where she >> can write to, and then the application need to invent a protocol to >> use the HTTP server for solving the synchronization and lock >> mechanisms. It shouldn't be very impossible, should it? SyncML as a >> protocol could work, altough it is somewhat bloated. > >OK, so the user would have to set up some back end on the nearest http >server? more likely you'd use the the http put to upload the data, no `back-end' necessary. the structure would be as mandated by gnus, perhaps just storing and fetching the .newsrc.eld file, which shouldn't break gnus' guts, whereas trying to do something real-time and interactive would have to replace the gnus-newsrc-alist (et al) variables for functions that would perform i/o -- way more work. -- bringing you boring signatures for 17 years ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: LDAP support / configuration sharing ? [not found] ` <ymhu1o91lwn.fsf@okocim.cs.ubc.ca> 2002-06-12 6:45 ` those who know me have no need of my name @ 2002-06-12 14:16 ` Kai Großjohann 1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Kai Großjohann @ 2002-06-12 14:16 UTC (permalink / raw) Chris Majewski <majewski@cs.ubc.ca> writes: > OK, so the user would have to set up some back end on the nearest http > server? Will anybody use this, other than me? Will anybody help me > write it? I haven't done any gnus development. Maybe the main part of this is to abstract the configuration keeping away from the current implementation. Then any particular storage protocol is just a SMOP. kai -- ~/.signature is: umop 3p!sdn (Frank Nobis) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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