RPM Binary missing
gpshumway opened this issue · comments
Greetings. Thanks so much for your continued maintenance of Tomboy.
I'm trying to install a new instance of Tomboy-ng in Fedora, but the link on the Download Release wiki page gives a 404 page not found error. The file it supposedly points to is:
https://github.com/tomboy-notes/tomboy-ng/releases/download/v0.36c/tomboy-ng-0.36c-2.x86_64.rpm
Before I go down the bash script for deb->rpm or build from source roads, I thought I'd just ask for an rpm.
Thanks!
Thats messy gpshumway, very sorry. Looks like I fixed a packaging issue a couple of weeks ago and forgot to update the Fedora part of that download page. Very sorry, all fixed now.
You might like to consider the current pre-release. You would want https://github.com/tomboy-notes/tomboy-ng/releases/download/v0.36g/tomboy-ng-0.36h-1.x86_64.rpm
Still has a few things to solve wrt packaging but probably a lot better product than 0.36c right now.
Davo
We aim to please. :-)
I'll close this now, its all done, too easy !
A discussion rather than an answer I am afraid.
OK, we sure do have a problem here I am afraid. TomboyTools does not import HTML, it could be made to do so but with a fair bit of work. You see, I could not make a generic HTML importer, just one to handle tomboy-ng's exported notes. So, not widely useful. And time would be a problem, almost certainly not before Christmas.
So, some questions -
You were not using Sync in any form before your upgrade ?
When installing F39, you allowed it to format the /home partition ?
No other backups ?
I ask the latter because, by default, tomboy-ng makes regular auto archives, one of those might appear in your backups ?
Next, using SupraLance's online converter ? I'd hate to see my notes go through a public service like that. But maybe it does do a reasonable job of converting to RTF ? I don't really know, RTF as a standard is pretty diverse, again, the converted notes that aconvert make may contain rtf that we cannot import. But perhaps worth a try. I can pretty easily make a little add on that will turn a directory full of rtf files into notes.
Another approach might be a lot quicker, private and sort of OK. Did you export your notes using TomboyTools or Tomboy ? SupraLance used Tomboy and that produced some pretty complicated CSS code. The html that tomboy-ng makes is reasonably clean html. I could make you a filter that strips out that simple HTML and converts your notes to plain text. tomboy-ng will happily import plain text.
Obviously, you will loose all the markup but hopefully no content. I think ....
Thoughts ?
Davo
Hmm, thats all bad news I am afraid. I vaguely remember looking at Tomboy exported html and shaking my head sadly. It does sound like using aconvert, get one complicated one turned into RTF and send it to me and I will try to pull it into a KMemo. That will tell us your chances of making tomboy notes from them again. If it looks interesting, then I can make you a simple tool to bring them in as that way, one at a time (?) how many notes do you have ?
Important, make sure that one you send me is publicly viewable !
Once in tomboy-ng, you can export as MarkDown. One at a time or in bulk with tomboytools.
I was at one stage looking at syncing through NextCloud but they did not quite understand the risks of bad timekeeping with sync and I quickly saw the sort of problems we used to have with Tomboy Sync, especially with Rainy. So, I backed away, Still have a lot of code I prepared for it but would not ship it my worst enemy !
Davo
OK, things OK here now, new release in https://github.com/tomboy-notes/tomboy-ng/wiki/Download_Release
So closing this issue, thanks for your report.
Davo