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libinfinity is library to build collaborative text editors. Changes to the text buffers are synced to all other clients over a central server. Even though a central server is involved, the local user sees his changes applied instantly and the merging is done on the individual clients.

Components

infinote consists of the following parts:

  • libinfinity: Library implementing the core infinote part
  • infinoted: Simple stand-alone infinote server application
  • libinfgtk: Provides glib main loop integration and GTK+ widgets related to libinfinity
  • libinftext: Infinote plugin implementing real-time collaborative text editing
  • libinftextgtk: Implements the InfTextBuffer interface with a GtkTextBuffer as backend
  • libinfinoted-plugin-manager: Provides an interface to infinoted for plugins.

Requirements

libinfinity requires:

  • glib-2.0 >= 2.38
  • gobject-2.0 >= 2.38
  • libxml-2.0
  • gnutls >= 2.12.0
  • gsasl >= 0.2.21
  • avahi (optional)

infinoted:

  • libinfinity
  • libdaemon (optional)

libinfgtk:

  • libinfinity
  • gtk+-3.0 >= 3.10

libinftext:

  • libinfinity

libinftextgtk:

  • libinftext
  • gtk+-3.0 >= 3.10

Development

This library is developed by Armin Burgmeier armin@arbur.net. Artwork is done by Benjamin Herr ben@0x539.de. To get in contact with the developers, either use the mailing list obby-users@list.0x539.de (to which you can subscribe by sending mail to obby-users-subscribe@list.0x539.de) or drop by in our IRC channel #infinote on irc.freenode.org. Feel free to clone this GitHub repository and propose pull requests. Issues can be reported to the GitHub issue tracker.