steilerDev/icloud-photos-sync

FreeBSD support?

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jan666 commented

Hello,

I just wanted to try this out but it looks like FreeBSD is not supported:

npm ERR! code EBADPLATFORM
npm ERR! notsup Unsupported platform for icloud-photos-sync@1.1.0: wanted {"os":"linux,darwin,!win32"} (current: {"os":"freebsd","arch":"x64"})
npm ERR! notsup Valid OS:    linux,darwin,!win32
npm ERR! notsup Valid Arch:  undefined
npm ERR! notsup Actual OS:   freebsd
npm ERR! notsup Actual Arch: x64

is this on purpose or could freebsd be added to the "wanted" list?

steilerDev commented

I'm taking a conservative approach to the OS support since large parts of the codebase make assumptions about the file system (how symlinks are handled, a lot of fs interactions).

Unfortunately I currently don't have a way to validate FreeBSD compatibility. Given fs interactions are probably simliar from node's perspective, you should be fine running it - however I don't know how I could ensure continued functionality and therefore I can't add 'official' support (and it seems there is no way to add unofficial support to the package.json)

Two options here: Use Docker (the image is Alpine based and this works fine) - pull the repo change package.json and build and run it yourself (or download the asset attached to the latest release which already contains the built application).

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