Google Wave vs. Mozilla Raindrop. First look: inside Mozilla's Raindrop messaging platform - Mozilla Messaging, the organization behind the Thunderbird e-mail program, has introduced a new open source messaging aggregation platform: Raindrop.
The project is at an extremely early stage of development but the code has been made available through Mozilla Labs with the hope of encouraging third-party developers to participate in the effort. Ars put an early build through its paces and looked at aspects of the project that are relevant to developers. What's in a raindrop? Raindrop is a Web service designed to collate, filter, and present content from disparate messaging services. It currently comes with support for Twitter, GMail, IMAP e-mail, and Skype. It's important to understand that Raindrop is not a conventional desktop client application like Thunderbird. The frontend is implemented with HTML and JavaScript, with extensive use of the Dojo JavaScript library. Raindrop is built largely on top of CouchDB, an Erlang-based open source database framework. Testing Raindrop Conclusion.
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Raindrop/Install. Raindrop Check out the Hacking page for more context on the code.
Late Breaking News/Known Problems Integration with twisted logging is poor. We are in the middle of moving from using the manually executed 'run-raindrop.py' script to the couchdb managed 'couch-raindrop.py' script which is controlled by the front end. If both processes are running you can expect one to see regular conflict errors. Installing Raindrop couchdb Install couchdb, version 0.10 or later. 0.9 will not work. When building couchdb from source, it can be run without installing via a 'dev' install: cd couchdb; . raindrop Install Python 2.5 or 2.6 (note that Python 3 is not yet supported) . % hg clone -r 0.1 The trunk code is very much in flux, but if you prefer to use it, leave off the tag: % hg clone Execute the 'check-raindrop.py' script in the raindrop/server/python directory. This should check all dependencies and let you know what you are missing, then check your couchdb for certain configuration requirements.
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