Hi Antoine! On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 12:48:14PM -0500, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > On 2019-02-20 20:13:33, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > > This package is a useful inclusion to Debian because it makes Magic > > Wormhole accessible to users who are not comfortable using the command > > line; this lowers the barrier to entry to file-transfers that avoid > > corporate data-mining such as Dropbox, Google Drive, unencrypted > > email, etc. I learned of its existence in the following article: > > > > https://medium.com/elementaryos/appcenter-spotlight-transporter-7c9db2472f37 > > Wow, that's great! >
I think so too, especially since we probably both agree that Syncthing is still too difficult to set up for the users noted below ;-) > It would be great if this would also be available for other platforms > (iOS, OSX, Windows) as file sharing between geeks only goes so far - it > is, after all, the current state of affaires with wormhole > itself... Getting a GUI is sure nice but won't help our peers in the > walled gardens out there... > > Not sure how portable Vala is anyways? > I don't have any experience with the language, but read that "Vala is a cross platform development tool with third party distributions providing binaries for Windows, macOS, Linux, *BSDs and other platforms" https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala And it looks like something like this one liner will produce either a statically linked binary or win32 binary + associated DLLs (similarly to how I've seen some python apps for Windows) # valac --pkg gtk+-3.0 -X -mwindows gtk.vala http://valainstaller.sourceforge.net/ Hm, I wonder if Wormhole could someday become a standard for sending confidential files? Interfax is overkill for non-businesses, after all. > > Given that ElementaryOS has a pay-what-you-want Appstore model, and > > the upstream developer primarily targeted this platform, I believe > > they would appreciate it if their software was packaged with > > upstream/metadata containing a "Donation: $URL" field. > > I didn't know about this field, but sure why not... > Thanks :-) My rose-tinted glasses call it a small kindness. > > CCing the magic-wormhole maintainer and GNOME team, who seem like the > > people who would be most interested in packaging this. > > As one of the wormhole maintainers, I'm interested in seeing this exist > as well! Yay! :-D > > 'wish I had learned of it months ago so that it could have been part > > of Buster! > > We can always backport, that shouldn't be too hard... > Good point, and of course popular downstreams of Debian will import it for their next release--thinking about less technical users' access to the software, you know? ;-) Cheers, Nicholas
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