windows's "cloud files api"
Hey guys, I ve been wandering the net for many years, looking if somewhere, someone is building something like "placeholder files" into a desktop syncing solution.
On Windows now basically every sync client can use the "cloud files api" integrated in windows and therefore provide the necessary features.
in the open source world, so far, no one has managed to realize something like this. NextCloud once had it on their targetlist, but soon abandoned it because they didn't find an easy way to achieve it.
every few weeks I scan the net if something new came up and this time i stumbled across this comment,
https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/issues/2637
mentioning libcloudproviders as a possible place to implement it.
as there is a TON of people out there looking for those features and its going nowhere for years now, I try my luck to ask around here if something like this is maybe already on the way or would be possible be implemented and maintained here?