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I can't praise Unison enough. I've been using it every day for over 10 years and is easily one of the most useful pieces of software I've ever come across. I've donated multiple times over the years.
I use Syncthing now. It's really useful.
How difficult would it be to build a Dropbox clone on top of this?
- Unison is written in OCaml, which is (probably) a perfectly fine language but not commonly used
- Unison synchronizes files to files, but for a Dropbox-like system you really want deduplication for space savings (i.e. server-side storage is a bunch of pointers to content-addressed blocks.)
- in general, it's not clear to me that the client is really the hard part of Dropbox. Note e.g. the part where Dropbox now runs its own data centers for cost reasons.
- there's a million fiddly things to get right, and Unison hasn't had that much usage
Not to be confused with Panic's Usenet/NNTP client: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unison_(Usenet_client)
I can't praise Unison enough. I've been using it every day for over 10 years and is easily one of the most useful pieces of software I've ever come across. I've donated multiple times over the years.
I'm a maintainer of the Unison package in Fedora and I'd love to know which version(s) of Unison you use day to day. In Fedora (and I think this applies in Debian too) we have to maintain 3 versions because Unison isn't interoperable across minor releases. For this reason we package 2.13, 2.27 and 2.40, and I think there is discussion about packaging the latest release too. Keeping these ancient (esp 2.13) versions g…
Ouch! FWIW, Thanks for all your work.
I can't praise Unison enough. I've been using it every day for over 10 years and is easily one of the most useful pieces of software I've ever come across. I've donated multiple times over the years.
I'm a maintainer of the Unison package in Fedora and I'd love to know which version(s) of Unison you use day to day. In Fedora (and I think this applies in Debian too) we have to maintain 3 versions because Unison isn't interoperable across minor releases. For this reason we package 2.13, 2.27 and 2.40, and I think there is discussion about packaging the latest release too. Keeping these ancient (esp 2.13) versions g…
But you package for Fedora, which is "upstream" for RHEL (if I'm not mistaken) with their 10 year life cycles, so I'm sure RHEL customers would love you to keep as many versions available as possible :)
I can't praise Unison enough. I've been using it every day for over 10 years and is easily one of the most useful pieces of software I've ever come across. I've donated multiple times over the years.
I'm a maintainer of the Unison package in Fedora and I'd love to know which version(s) of Unison you use day to day. In Fedora (and I think this applies in Debian too) we have to maintain 3 versions because Unison isn't interoperable across minor releases. For this reason we package 2.13, 2.27 and 2.40, and I think there is discussion about packaging the latest release too. Keeping these ancient (esp 2.13) versions g…
The last straw came when it turns out that unison was incompatible with the same version, if that version had been built on a different system. I can't remember the details but there was some library version difference that results in a unison that has the same version number but wouldn't talk to one from another system without crashing.
Drove me crazy.
How difficult would it be to build a Dropbox clone on top of this?