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[João Santos <jmcs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Either way, ideally,  zim should support simultaneous access to the files,
for example in a NFS or SMB shared filesystem.



2012/3/1 Svenn Bjerkem <svenn.bjerkem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 08:02 +0000, João Santos wrote:
> > The problem with unison is that it is no longer actively developed.
> > And beside that an automatic syncing method would probably be better
> > for the average user.
>
> Well, git is also not automatically updating, but SparkleShare
> developers put infrastructure around it to make it a Dropbox clone for
> private networks. There are voices on the SparkleShare channels that
> raise the unison issue from time to time. I personally like unison
> better than git, as a git repository collect overhead on commits. This
> overhead gets really big as time moves on. If the SparkleShare box
> contains binary data which happens to be updated from time to time,
> there is going to be a huge overhead. Nice thing is that there is always
> previous versions available, so no need to use the vcs plugin in zim, at
> least for me.
>
> It is not necessarily negative that a package is not developed anymore
> as long as it is packagable on newer distributions. Stable and function
> complete software is the best there is. No surprises. (Unless there are
> bugs, of course.)
>
> Automatic sync is a necessity, Dropbox made that pretty clear. I moved
> most of my non-sensitive things to Dropbox from unison and life became
> quite different. No forgotten updates anymore.
>
> --
> Svenn
>
>
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