[Opensync-users] OpenSync for file synchronization?

[William L. <wr...@gm...>]

Hi,

I've been working a little PyGtk application to synchronize
files/folders between two desktop computers (e.g.: a workstation and a
laptop). Thus far, I've been taking the approach of making it call
Unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) via pexpect, but
I've gotten a bit frustrated with some of its limitations. My most
recent irk is that it doesn't allow you to synchronize a folder with
another machine unless all the parent folders also exist on such a
machine.

I'm interested in trying opensync as an alternative. I don't have a
problem using/contributing-to alpha-level software, but I have to
admit I'm having a bit of trouble getting to grips with the
documentation/source.

>From a systems-level point of view, what I'm looking to do is have a
daemon running on each machine which can accept a "synchronization
request" on a network port (ideally over an encrypted channel), then
proceed with synchronizing a set of paths (with a set of files of
arbitrary size) on both machines. If there are conflicts during the
synchronization, I'd like to provide the user some way of resolving
them.

Is this something I could set up with the OpenSync infrastructure? If
not, what kind of work would be required to get that going? If so, are
there any examples of doing this lurking about? (I couldn't find any
on the website)
-- 
William Lachance
wr...@gm...