tomboy sshfs sync

[Andrew Paulsen]

On 06/15/2010 02:38, Romain Tartière wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 04:43:22PM -0500, Andrew Paulsen wrote:
>    
>> I was wondering if there is any work being done to port Tomboy's sshfs
>> syncing to FreeBSD.  Currently there are calls to modprobe and
>> fusermount that don't work.  There may be other problems, but I was
>> getting stuck on those.
>>      
> I had a look a while ago and got to the conclusion that for code
> readability and maintenance, it would be better to do major refactoring
> for all os-related code.
>
> The very bad news is that I just realised that I did this in the svn
> checkout of the code (it was a while ago) and I removed it without
> backing-up a diff before cloning the new git repository when GNOME
> switched to git.  I am therefore not able to provide my dirty patches
> :-/.
>
> AFAICR, it has been somewhat trivial to have the code working on
> FreeBSD, but because 1) the hack was ugly and 2) sshfs (at least in this
> use case) is problem-prone (if I recall correctly, I had to manually
> umount sshfs mounts a couple of times in order to launch Tomboy again) I
> never pushed this in the BSD# repos.
>
>
> Please tell me if you can take care of this and contribute a patch. If
> not, I might find a little time for a workaround by the end of the
> month but can't promise anything.
> A nice solution would be do the refactoring required to make Tomboy
> OS-agnostic and cope with FreeBSD and GNU/Linux and provide the ability
> to add extended support for other operating systems and merge it
> upstream.  It's currently low in my TODO-list but if there is much
> demand for this I might reconsider scheduling it with a higher priority.
>
> Thanks!
> Romain
>    

I'm more of an embedded programmer, but I'll take a crack at it and let 
you know.  Thanks for the thoughtful reply!

Regards,
Andrew