http://disqus.com/by/salubrium/enTue, 29 Sep 2009 20:05:25 -0000http://fak3r.com/2009/09/14/howto-build-your-own-open-source-dropbox-clone/#comment-17809179<p>You're right about the whole heap of mono dependencies for ifolder. It was a pain in the ass to build and get working and it got to the stage that it became all too hard for me to work with. One thing I really wish Dropbox would do is to detect other Dropbox clients on the local network and synch directly to them and one of them synch to the server. As it is now, I think Dropbox synchs to the server and then syncs the same set of files back to each of the clients in the same network. This is unnecessary web traffic.</p><p>I forgot that I actually went from using Ifolder to Mindquarry, which was a Java based oss project using SVN as it's source control. It also had a few other bits attached ie: A wiki &amp; tasks. Check-ins were manual but the timeline versioning system was great. The company couldn't get it's 2nd round of funing and the founders had to go and get jobs. I haven't used it or try and build it since then. <a href="http://code.google.com/p/mindquarry/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://code.google.com/p/mindquarry/">http://code.google.com/p/mi...</a></p>salubriumTue, 29 Sep 2009 20:05:25 -0000http://fak3r.com/2009/09/14/howto-build-your-own-open-source-dropbox-clone/#comment-17648050<p>Novell had a product called ifolder, which they open sourced and I used it for about 2 years but it was a badly managed project and clients ended up not building on it. When Dropbox came out, I swapped to that but it seems that somebody has picked up on ifolder again and it's an active project. Ifolder does exactly what dropbox does including versioning etc. It was a mono-based project and written in C#, so that might turn a few people off it but check it out. <a href="http://www.kablink.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.kablink.org/">http://www.kablink.org/</a></p>salubriumSun, 27 Sep 2009 18:32:33 -0000