On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:58:19 +0700 Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
EA> On Fri, Oct 28 2011, Ted Zlatanov wrote: >> I put together some code that uses CouchDB to store Gnus group >> subscriptions and marks in gnus-sync.el. It works well; so well in fact >> that I'm considering doing the same for BBDB records. Imagine having >> your BBDB entirely stored on a central server instead of a local file. >> Yes, kind of like LDAP, but not so hard to use and much more accessible. >> >> In order to do this I will have to generalize and improve the >> gnus-sync.el code that talks to CouchDB. But I wanted to first find out >> if this interests anyone (and please feel free to tell me my idea >> sucks), or if there's existing functionality that I would be >> duplicating. I'm not aware of such. EA> Out of curiosity, what sort of support would be needed on the server EA> side. Just a CouchDB installation? I assume it's the sort of thing you'd EA> need your own hosting and SSH access to set up? Just CouchDB (you may need to install some custom design views, but that's trivial and I already do it for gnus-sync.el). There's something interesting here. CouchDB has built-in multipoint replication (master-master) over HTTP. So you can run your own locally and another one somewhere else; the replication is trivial to set up. So rather than a world-visible CouchDB server you could have two private ones talking over HTTP. As for third-party solutions, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091735/is-there-a-hosted-couchdb-service-provider Cloudant and Iris Couch have free plans to provide hosted CouchDB that will probably be good enough for most of us. I can host people on my server as long as I can afford it :) But the idea is that this is an infrastructure you can easily obtain, and the BBDB sync will ride on top of it. Ted ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your Android app more play: Bring it to the BlackBerry PlayBook in minutes. BlackBerry App World™ now supports Android™ Apps for the BlackBerry® PlayBook™. Discover just how easy and simple it is! http://p.sf.net/sfu/android-dev2dev _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
