Centralizing the MouseHole DB (was Re: MouseCommand, a branch of wikish)

[why the lucky stiff]

Jake Donham wrote:

> Here is a thought: I work from school and from home, and I would like 
> to use this from both places (this is part of why I love del.icio.us), 
> but I don't know about opening up a MouseHole instance to the wide, 
> weird net. One alternative would be to provide a way to sync the wiki 
> from one MouseHole to another--you want your MouseHole local anyway.

Over the past few days, this idea has really haunted me.  Moving 
forward, this is necessary.  And my suggestions so far (sshfs or rsync) 
are just too klunky for most people to put into action.

But syncing is a pain.  (Blech, syncing PDAs??)   And a central DB would 
require an internet connection, which I don't really want to require.  
So what else is there?  A peer-to-peer database?  Ugghh.

For now, the best solution may be to start simple.  I'm thinking of 
adding a backend API to MouseHole 1.3.  It'll mimick the DBM interface.  
That way at least we could support a central DB, which would be pretty 
cool to have anyway.

_why