Intro Assignment for Project

Your first task is to spend some time exploring the project and to write a document summarizing your findings. Pretend you are starting an internship or a job and this is your project–what do you want to know to get started?

Make sure you read:

• the project README,
• the how to contribute guide,
• the Synconomicon,
• and the Sync and Storage Handbook.

My expectation is a 2-4 page document that clearly and concisely addresses the following:

• What is the purpose of the project?
• Why does it exist?
• What does it do?
• What are the components?
• What do the APIs for clients look like?
• Confirm that you built the code in your development environment.

You may want to poke around the code a bit.

I also want a list of the 5 people that will be your group members.

Building on Linux

The VM image I distributed at the beginning of class needs to have some libraries and binaries installed in order to build.

Run the following:

sudo apt-get -y install ninja-build \
  libz-dev \
  llvm \
  clang \
  clang-format \
  libclang-dev \
  libxcb-render0-dev \
  libxcb-shape0-dev \
  libxcb-xfixes0-dev

Then, inside your application-services directory:

git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/gyp.git tools/gyp
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py -O - | python2.7 - --user
cd tools/gyp/
sudo python2.7 setup.py install

Now you should be able to set up your environment with:

source libs/bootstrap-desktop.sh

After this, cargo test --all should succeed. Note that your VM needs more than 4GB of memory in order for all unit tests to pass. If you want to increase the memory allocated to your VM, shut the VM down, and go to the settings menu, then the “System” tab.