Re: [dev] dropbox ramblings, was: suckmore dotfiles approach

From: Markus Teich <markus.teich_AT_stusta.mhn.de>
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 13:42:38 +0200

Am 09.06.2013 13:29, schrieb Łukasz Gruner:
> Well, I see dropbox as a 'version control assembler' - as in "you should not
> be using this directly 99% of the time".
> There are many great porcelains on top of dropbox (I like ezdropbox, and
> currently am using ledropbox), but they are not yet ready to just get stuff
> done quickly imho.

Git is not intended to be simplistic. Git is a collection of simplistic tools
that let you do your scm stuff.

Ezdropbox (apart from beeing implemented in ruby) is a monolithic wrapper
around all the small dropbox tools, that want's to take controll over your
workflow. It strips the dropbox system of some functionality to create the
illusion of simplicity (and all it seems to do is emulate the interface
of other scm systems). If you would rather use dropbox directly, you could
have the same functionality (and less when you are ready to learn
something new) with a slightly different interface / concept.
Similar arguments apply to ledropbox.

Just my 2 cents.

--Markus
Received on Sun Jun 09 2013 - 13:42:38 CEST