Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud

Re:Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud by tomku on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @10:15AM (#4386026)

Very cool, but I suspect that making it user-friendly and slick will end up being much more difficult than implementing the actual functionality was.

Edit: I have another question/concern, does the implementation in Haskell mean that the end product will have a runtime dependency on GHC or the Haskell Platform?

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Re:Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud by mikeplus48 on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @10:29AM (#4386092)

No, ghc produces statically linked binaries by default (-dynamic if you don't like that).

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Re:Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud by tomku on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @10:35AM (#4386124)

A quick check of the git-annex package in Ubuntu shows that you're right, no runtime Haskell dependency. I can only assume that the same will be true for the user-friendly "assistant". Thanks!

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Re:Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud by egonschiele on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @08:34PM (#4389239)

This is true, but then those static binaries tend to be very big (50+ mb).

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Re:Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud by dons on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @09:14PM (#4389374)

50M!? 5 would be more likely, assuming stripping. As opposed to 5k with dyn libs.

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Re:Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud by joeyh on Thursday August 16, 2012 @12:10AM (#4389870)

I'm up to 15 mb :/

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Re:Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud by ZoFreX on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @10:54AM (#4386223)

Yeah, I am concerned by the plan to create a web front-end for managing files in one month, it seems... optimistic at best.

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Re:Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud by joeyh on Thursday August 16, 2012 @12:10AM (#4389864)

The web frontend is functional.. took 2 weeks. Yesod rules.

(Still many weeks more polish and additional functionality, but kickstarter funded me for a whole year!)

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Re:Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud by ZoFreX on Thursday August 16, 2012 @06:24AM (#4390661)

I would say never under-estimate the amount of time polish takes - that last 10% of tweaking tiny details always takes a long time (or as the oft-repeated saying goes, the first 90% of work takes the first 90% of time, the last 10% of work takes the other 90% of time).

Good to hear progress is promising though :)

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