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I tried installing with cabal and homebrew on Mountain Lion. After cabal install git-annex I get:
Linking dist/build/git-annex/git-annex ...
Installing executable(s) in /Users/dfc/.cabal/bin
setup: standalone/macos/git-annex.app/Contents/Info.plist: does not exist
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
git-annex-3.20121001 failed during the final install step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
There is no directory named macos inside of standalone:
jumbo:git-annex-3.20121001 dfc$ ls -l standalone/
total 112
-rw-r--r--+ 1 dfc staff 55614 Oct 6 10:40 licences.gz
drwxr-xr-x+ 6 dfc staff 204 Oct 6 10:40 linux
drwxr-xr-x+ 3 dfc staff 102 Oct 6 10:40 osx
Stefan: "annex is for managing big binary files that not get modified most of the time and only added/synced or deleted."
While this is true, the kickstarter title for assistant was "Like dropbox", and dropbox makes it transparent to edit files and they work with the filesystem. So with assistant, lock/unlock should be automated and transparent to the user. Otherwise it's confusing and not simple at all to use, and at least OSX keeps giving errors because of the way it handles aliases. So something like sharebox is essential to be included in assistant in my opinion.
regarding the current mount polling on OSX: why not use the NSNotificationCenter for being notified on mount events on OSX?
Details see:
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12409458/detect-when-a-volume-is-mounted-on-os-x
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6062299/how-to-add-an-observer-to-nsnotificationcenter-in-a-c-class-using-objective-c
- https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/CoreFoundation/Reference/CFNotificationCenterRef/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20001438
We're on month 4 of work, and most of months 1-3 is done well enough for a first pass. Very little of what's listed in month 4 has happened yet, due to my being maybe 2 weeks behind schedule, but bits of cloud are being planned.
I've made a small adjustment, I think it'll make sense to spend a month on user-driven features before getting into Android.
joey, you rock. I just want to push on that point - it doesn't seem like there's that many tools that do what git-annex is trying to do out there, and you seem to be doing an incredible job at doing it, so this is great, keep going!
i was wondering - i am glad to see the progress, but it is unclear to me where you actually are in the roadmap. are things going according to plan? are we at month 3? 4? or 1-4? :) just little updates on that roadmap section above would be quite useful!
thanks again!
Thank you for this great piece of software which is now becoming even better with the assistant.
Just one question: will one instance of the assistant be able to track multiple git annex repositories each building up their own network of annexes OR would I need to run multiple instances of the assistant?
Thanks, Jörn