[Calypso] General Calypso usage

[Stefan]

Dear Jelmer,
I reckon the script "calypso-init" will not work. Calypso has no
executable like those under /usr/bin or /bin. Calypso need to be
interpreted using python. This fact seem not to be considered in the
example init script.

Cheers,
Stefan

On Sun, 2015-12-20 at 16:22 +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 03:50:55PM +0100, Stefan wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > I have running an calypso instance on my virtual Debian 8 box since
> > today. That is why I like to play with calypso a bit. Until now, I
> > figured out how to create appointments and contacts. That seems to be
> > straight forward.Now I like to do more serious stuff.
> > 
> > Some questions appeared I would like to ask this way. Here it goes.
> > 
> > *According to the file setup.py, a website called
> > http://www.calypso.org/ shall exist. This website, however, seems to be
> > offline or moved somewhere else. Any idea?
> I don't think that website ever existed. Perhaps we should update it
> to point at Keith's calypso page.
> 
> > *Doe you have experience with autostart setup of calypso? Some day in
> > the future I would like to run a calypso instance on a rather
> > operational and real server.
> See calypso-init in the git repo for an example init script.
> 
> > *Does any documentation exist apart from the git repo?
> I'm not aware of anything outside of the git repo.
> 
> > *I am not an expert of git, but I could imagine running a remote repo to
> > backup a calypso database. Does anybody has experience with that?
> Yes, just backing up the git repo should be sufficient. The repo isn't
> special in any way so you can just clone it to make a backup.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jelmer