WEwebmaven·Jul 15, 2018
And I see that you've now added the explanation to the README:
https://github.com/harababurel/gcsf/commit/3d5ba8ffff2a18bf0...
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a FUSE file system based on Google Drive
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5 sourcesSee this issue[0]. tl;dr: make sure you have the libfuse-dev package installed.
[0] https://github.com/harababurel/gcsf/issues/9
In Show HN: Google Drive as a file system> This is neat! Can I use this for multiple accounts? I've been looking for a MacOS and Linux solution for this exact problem but I'd like to use it for 3-4 Google accounts.
The current release allows you to mount a single account for each local user. For the moment, you could work around this limitation by creating another user on your machine and running a separate instance of GCSF as the new user. I created an issue [0] and will work on adding support for multiple accounts in a future release.
> How easy is it to use a language like Rust for some web connection stuff like what is being used here? I've never used the language, but I've always been interested in it.
You can make HTTP requests relatively easily with the help of hyper [1]. In the case of this project, I was lucky to have some useful libraries readily available: yup-oauth2
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[2], google-drive3 [3]. I would place Rust somewhere below Python in terms of existing tools and support (for instance, Google doesn't provide any official client libraries for Rust, but it does for Python), but making relatively simple applications is completely achievable (and fun as well) in Rust.
[0] https://github.com/harababurel/gcsf/issues/10
[1] https://hyper.rs/
[2] https://github.com/dermesser/yup-oauth2
[3] https://crates.io/crates/google-drive3
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