Feature request: Make Shaarli a Sandstorm.io app

[jibe-b]

Hi!

Shaarli is a nice software that deserve wider spread, according to me.

Do you know sandstorm.io? I think Shaarli should be added to the apps list.
The concept is to enable existing open source apps to run inside the sandstorm server app, the steps to do it are documented here: https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/developing/

And I noticed that there people who add a bookmark of sandstorm.io inside their Shaarli ;)

http://jcfrog.com/shaarli41/?zGRDiw
http://nicolasmd.com.ar/links/?VQVcRA
http://dotmana.com/shaarli/?IbD6Cg
https://shaa.cicogna.fr/?searchtags=sandstorm
http://river.hoa.ro/search.php?q=tag:personal
http://shaarli.claire-desbois.fr/?searchterm=sandstorm

Best regards

NB: I first posted this here: sebsauvage#230 (my mistake)

[nodiscc]

Copying my comment on the original issue:

I'd prefer avoiding storing resources for third-party projects (https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/vagrant-spk/packaging-tutorial/ .sandstorm file for example) in the Shaarli repository itself. Otherwise we'll end up with a lot of unrelated files for various third-party systems (sandstorm, vagrant, docker, ansible... etc etc etc) If you want to maintain a sandstorm Shaarli package, you can do so in your own repository and we'll gladly link to from the wiki.

[ArthurHoaro]

Well, if someone can provide a solution to make Shaarli work with Sandstorm.io and a CI solution to update the app on release, we can host it in Shaarli's organization.

I've made a few test, and it's not really easy:

• once installed, sandstorm apps can only write in /var, which is currently not compatible with Shaarli's installation process.
• CI seems a bit tricky, but apparently doable with Travis https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/blob/develop/.travis/sandstorm.sh

[jibe-b]

Ok, I hope it can be done. I may help when I find some time (I am not developer so my timescales are longer than yours).

[zeigerpuppy]

I agree this would be a good sandstorm port.
Ideally it's good with sandstorm ports to retain the benefits of upstream changes.
So the first job would be to document the changes required to get it ported, hopefully then these can just be a change in the build to retain compatibility.

I'd be happy to host/test and do a little coding on this if others are interested.

[ArthurHoaro]

The changes needed in Shaarli is the configuration management refactoring, which will be done eventually.

About the tools, I've forgotten what I tried back then, but it needs Sandstorm packaging, and a way to make Travis upgrade Shaarli in Sandstorm when a new version is released.

[ArthurHoaro]

I've worked a bit on this. I was able to go through the install process using the new configuration manager, using only a few hacks.

However, sessions aren't working. Authentication is supposed to be done through Sandstorm SSO using their reverse proxy headers (see the docs). This would require too many changes in Shaarli codebase, and I'm not willing to maintain it.

Most apps present in Sandstorm catalogue are actually forks, specific branches or Sandstorm only app. If anyone still wants to create a fork for this, you can start with this.

[jibe-b]

Sorry for reading this late. Thanks for having attempted to do it.