Re: [fossil-users] Collaborative deployment of Fossil without a server

2015-06-12 Thread Mark
MaidSafe is the company doing the core development and still hosting the main resource though this will move out to the community properties before long: http://MaidSafe.net There's a lot to access via the above, but two main resources are: Forum: https://forum.safenetwork.io/ (find me there as @

Re: [fossil-users] Collaborative deployment of Fossil without a server

2015-06-12 Thread Ron W
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Mark wrote: > Its not really a shared disk. I described it because what I have in mind > is similar to sharing a disk. In practice, the data is stored on the p2p > network, spread all over the place. However, each user with access has > the option of seeing it app

Re: [fossil-users] Collaborative deployment of Fossil without a server

2015-06-12 Thread Mark
Its not really a shared disk. I described it because what I have in mind is similar to sharing a disk. In practice, the data is stored on the p2p network, spread all over the place. However, each user with access has the option of seeing it appear as a virtual drive - hence like a shared disk. The

Re: [fossil-users] Collaborative deployment of Fossil without a server

2015-06-12 Thread jungle Boogie
On 12 June 2015 at 13:21, Mark wrote: > Two client machines 1 & 2, each with a local repo, and each running a > Fossil server. Both servers are configured to access a single master > repo file that sits on a shared disk, mounted on both machine 1 and > machine 2. How will the clients connect to

Re: [fossil-users] Collaborative deployment of Fossil without a server

2015-06-12 Thread Mark
On 12/06/15 20:05, Ron W wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Mark wrote: >> >> no way for remote devices to communicate >> with a server on another client over HTTP (because this would defeat the >> security of the network). >> > > So SAFE Network does support applications that use TCP ?

Re: [fossil-users] Collaborative deployment of Fossil without a server

2015-06-12 Thread Mark
Thanks Richard, this is encouraging. I would appreciate any pointers to relevant documentation on multiple servers accessing a single repo, and the file locking options. I searched the Fossil docs again and didn't find anything on this. Then I'll need to look at what SAFE will support in this are

Re: [fossil-users] Collaborative deployment of Fossil without a server

2015-06-12 Thread Ron W
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Mark wrote: > > no way for remote devices to communicate > with a server on another client over HTTP (because this would defeat the > security of the network). > So SAFE Network does support applications that use TCP ? Fossil's sync protocol "piggy backs" on HTT

Re: [fossil-users] Collaborative deployment of Fossil without a server

2015-06-12 Thread Richard Hipp
On 6/12/15, Mark wrote: > I'm thinking it's unlikely that Fossil caters for multiple servers > talking to a shared repo file, It does. By default it wants posix advisory locking to work, but that can be hacked around using an environment variable. (I'll have to look up the details for you later

[fossil-users] Collaborative deployment of Fossil without a server

2015-06-12 Thread Mark
Hello, I've just learned about Fossil and am very impressed with its capabilities, and think it could be an excellent way of providing collaborative development environment on SAFE Network, which is a secure, decentralised network, including storage and communications (and later computation). T