Comment 2 for bug 375349

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John Lenton (chipaca) wrote : Re: [Bug 375349] Re: No clients for Win, Mac and other Linux distributions.

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 01:44:32PM -0000, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
> First Off, I am just a user, not a developer of Ubuntu One.
>
> >From what I can see, this is largely python based. In theory, this can
> run on Windows ( Euch! ) Mac and other Distros. I will try to run this
> first in Debian W/ GNOME ( If nothing else can run this, it will be
> Debian ). If this looks promising ( and I think it should ) it should be
> portable across the other distros with light hacking.
>

yes. For running on things other than gnome, the only blocker is the
gnome keyring (there isn't yet a cross-desktop keychain thing).

For running on legacy operating systems you'd need to replace the
inotify bits with the equivalent on the operating system of
choice.