Seafile is a distributed file synchronization client/server. A user first creates a synchronized folder on a server, then sync it with any local folder. It is distributed in the sense that a client can sync with any server, public key authentication is used, no login from client is required.

Seafile can be used to build a full-fledged cloud storage platform. It has following features:

1. Full web operations like create folders, upload files, move files.
2. Synchronizing on demand (every client can choose what to sync)
3. Sync with existing folders
4. Sharing groups, users can create and join groups.
5. Full version operation like SyncFolder history, single file history, file restore.
6. Organizations, users can create and join organizations like github.

Seafile uses GIT's version control model, but simplified for automatic file synchronization. Every synchronized folder is like a GIT repository. It has its own unique history, which consists of a list of commits. File history, commit diff, etc., are all supported.

Multiple storage backends can be used to store metadatas and files.

The following packages are required to build seafile:

json-glib >= 0.10.2
valac >= 0.8
libsearpc >= 1.0
libccnet >= 0.9.3
libmysqlclient-dev
libzdb >= 2.10.2

To compile the daemon components, just

./autogen.sh; ./configure; make; make install

To also compile the server components, use

./configure --enable-server