intertwingly

Syncado is an impressive piece of work.  Contained within the 63,042 byte tar.gz file is both a client and server.  Complete with authentication, configuration, license, README, stylesheets.  There even is a bit of cruft in there: CVS directories, compiled python, and even incomplete experimental additions.

In short, the perfect mixture around which to build a community.

The small size is a testament to someone taking a look at the problem as a whole, with a minimum of assumptions - and based on building on a solid base.  In this case the base involves, Berkeley DB XML (which requires Berkeley DB, Xerces C, Pathan, and bsddb3), libiconv, libxml and libxslt, and Webware 0.8.1.

It is only the sheer size of the dependencies which is giving me pause.  On the flip side, I've found a bunch of new toys to explore and play with.  ;-)