#353 dropbox-like mounting of WW project directories

[Lee Worden]

mount the remote working directory to mess with the files. tweak the project files, make things.

This seems to have several possible levels of complexity.

1. mount a copy of the directory, make changes only locally. This is not actually mounting, just the exporting we have.

2. mount the PE working directory and edit/upload files in the remote working directory. This would probably be doable if PE were written to support standard HTTP requests (in which case httpfs (http://httpfs.sourceforge.net/) might be able to do the job) or DAV requests (in which case mount.davfs (http://pwet.fr/man/linux/administration_systeme/mount_davfs) could do it, which seems more likely).

3. mount through WW so that changes to the source files can be recorded on the wiki, not just temporarily in the working directory. Off hand that seems like it would require some kind of custom mounting utility. Wikipediafs is read-only, I think, and even if not it would need to be customized.

Maybe a combination of using mount_davfs to connect to PE and a separate command-line utility, run manually, to commit source-code changes to the wiki?

[Lee Worden]

Or make PE support the DAV protocol, and write a API for WW that proxies those requests through to PE transparently, except for intercepting changes to source files; or accept a special commit operation that's different from editing the source files on the disk?

[Lee Worden]

or maybe we should just have PE put its files on dropbox

[Lee Worden]

Ticket moved from /p/workingwiki/feature-requests/44/

[Andrei Akhmetzhanov]

So, I tried to play around dropbox yesterday. I was wondering how to download files from dropbox

For example, if I want to use some data and keep it on dropbox due to large volume of the data, then I want explore the data by a partucular project on WW. I can download the data from dropbox folder, do something in WW and remove the data when the project is finished. I wonder whether it is possible to explore the data without actual download from dropbox.

My procedure yesterday was the following: I installed the FF-addon, called "Cliget" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cliget/. It allowed me to copy the link to files in Dropbox (since you have to get cookies for that)

However, http://superuser.com/questions/470664/how-to-download-dropbox-files-using-wget-command - as it follows from the second answer, I can just add "?dl=1" to the link and get the access, which is much easier, but I haven't tried.

[Andrei Akhmetzhanov]

What I meant by not actual download: if I can get the link to the zip-file of my directory on Dropbox, then it might be possible to mount it as the zip virtual folder. I have tried to do it with fise-zip, but I've got the message that my zip is corrupted