Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:36:46 -0500 From: Andrew Paulsen <andrew.paulsen@packetdigital.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Romain_Tarti=E8re?= <romain@blogreen.org> Cc: mono@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: tomboy sshfs sync Message-ID: <4C1781EE.5090409@packetdigital.com> In-Reply-To: <20100615073841.GA9760@blogreen.org> References: <4C16A27A.5050800@packetdigital.com> <20100615073841.GA9760@blogreen.org>
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On 06/15/2010 02:38, Romain Tartière wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 04:43:22PM -0500, Andrew Paulsen wrote: > >> I was wondering if there is any work being done to port Tomboy's sshfs >> syncing to FreeBSD. Currently there are calls to modprobe and >> fusermount that don't work. There may be other problems, but I was >> getting stuck on those. >> > I had a look a while ago and got to the conclusion that for code > readability and maintenance, it would be better to do major refactoring > for all os-related code. > > The very bad news is that I just realised that I did this in the svn > checkout of the code (it was a while ago) and I removed it without > backing-up a diff before cloning the new git repository when GNOME > switched to git. I am therefore not able to provide my dirty patches > :-/. > > AFAICR, it has been somewhat trivial to have the code working on > FreeBSD, but because 1) the hack was ugly and 2) sshfs (at least in this > use case) is problem-prone (if I recall correctly, I had to manually > umount sshfs mounts a couple of times in order to launch Tomboy again) I > never pushed this in the BSD# repos. > > > Please tell me if you can take care of this and contribute a patch. If > not, I might find a little time for a workaround by the end of the > month but can't promise anything. > A nice solution would be do the refactoring required to make Tomboy > OS-agnostic and cope with FreeBSD and GNU/Linux and provide the ability > to add extended support for other operating systems and merge it > upstream. It's currently low in my TODO-list but if there is much > demand for this I might reconsider scheduling it with a higher priority. > > Thanks! > Romain > I'm more of an embedded programmer, but I'll take a crack at it and let you know. Thanks for the thoughtful reply! Regards, Andrew
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