Grive: Open Source Google Drive Client For Linux
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Re: Grive: Open Source Google Drive Client For Linux
#2The project page: https://github.com/match065/grive
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#3Thank you. When the "DriveForLinux" grumbling and whining started, my response was simple: "Since when do we whine about things and not just do it ourselves?" The response I got back was mostly "because [insert excuse]."
I'm not in a position where I could've done this (openly), or helped. (Contributing to open source is in a contractually grey area for me... may become my employer's property, so I avoid it. [Yeah, yeah, because [insert excuse] ;) ] So I'm happy to see somebody step up and do something. Sure, it's not full-service. But it works.
So again, thank you to those responsible. Maybe now El Goog will decide to release their Drive client for Linux.
Re: Grive: Open Source Google Drive Client For Linux
#4It's cute. It builds easily (albeit with cmake, sigh...). It's a single binary. The usage is straightforward if a little primitive (run it in a directory and it will sync that directory to the cloud).
It's very much not dropbox, but it's not bad.
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#5A FUSE filesystem interface would be the best, so you can mount it
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#6Open source...interesting...so one could jam an encryption layer in between. Make use of the free storage w/o privacy & security issues.
Re: Grive: Open Source Google Drive Client For Linux
#7A FUSE filesystem interface would be the best, so you can mount it
Difficult: the Google API doesn't seem to support random access to files, only whole downloads. So you'd need a caching layer to buffer any changes, prefetch, etc...
And even then, it would be catastrophically slow for true random access. Note that even Dropbox isn't implemented with FUSE; it just watches your ~/Dropbox folder with (presumably) inotify.
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#8Thank you. When the "DriveForLinux" grumbling and whining started, my response was simple: "Since when do we whine about things and not just do it ourselves?" The response I got back was mostly "because [insert excuse]." I'm not in a position where I could've done this (openly), or helped. (Contributing to open source is in a contractually grey area for me... may become my employer's property, so I avoid it. [Yeah, y…
I'm just waiting for Google to claim the API is copyrighted.
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#9Thank you. When the "DriveForLinux" grumbling and whining started, my response was simple: "Since when do we whine about things and not just do it ourselves?" The response I got back was mostly "because [insert excuse]." I'm not in a position where I could've done this (openly), or helped. (Contributing to open source is in a contractually grey area for me... may become my employer's property, so I avoid it. [Yeah, y…
I'm just waiting for Google to claim the API is copyrighted.
and the oracle speaks ...
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#10Open source...interesting...so one could jam an encryption layer in between. Make use of the free storage w/o privacy & security issues.
The synchronization software doesn't need to be open-source in order for you to throw, for example, EncFS into the mix. Open-source might make integration easier, though.
In either case, you will lose one of the most powerful features of Google Drive, which is that you can search and edit your documents online.