owncloud-apps nextCloud 15?

Any chance we can get this compatible with nextCloud 15? Please? Without having to fork this? :/

Jan 11 '19 02:01 BloodyIron

@BloodyIron All you should have to do is to edit appinfo/info.xml of both apps to have the max-version for Nextcloud set to 15.0, and they both seem to work:

    <dependencies>
        <nextcloud min-version="8.1" max-version="15.0"/>
                <database>pgsql</database>
                <database>sqlite</database>
                <database>mysql</database>
    </dependencies>

Jan 25 '19 01:01 4oo4

If it's such little work, why can't the releaser dev address it then?

Jan 25 '19 02:01 BloodyIron

Because when I try that on my install, it causes Nextcloud to die with an Internal Server Error. I tried the patch from here: but Nextcloud complained automatically disabled the app, because it "made Nextcloud unstable"

Feb 20 '19 19:02 rlitman

Sounds like it's not that little work then...

Feb 20 '19 20:02 BloodyIron

Part of having a Nextcloud is that you manage it yourself. In the time it took you to make this issue, you could have filed a PR and/or already fixed it for yourself. If you don't like the developer's response time, then fork it.

@4oo4 Not every (Nextcloud|GitHub) user is such a brilliant developer like you and can fix it for himself. There's no simple change for files_reader from 13 to 15 in info.xml because the error message Error: This app can not be enabled because it makes the server unstable pops up.

Not every Nextcloud admin knows which fork of this app works for now. Apart from the signing certificate.

After more than one year without any change and support it seems to me that this app is no longer maintained. The author should drop a line in the README.md file and the repo header.

Mar 19 '19 12:03 ghost

:/ is there any other way to read epub or other such formats in nextCloud then?

Mar 19 '19 15:03 BloodyIron

IMHO with OnlyOffice only, but for that you have to install a Docker container and so this solution for Shared Hosting is as good as not usable.

Mar 19 '19 22:03 ghost

@reiner-text I agree that the README.md needs to be updated to reflect that it's unmaintained, but I deleted the comment you're quoting because it was rude and unhelpful. A part of self-hosting does involve personal responsibility (and encourages tinkering like that), but you're right that my hack definitely isn't a replacement for the maintenance that this needs, it was just something that happened to work for me.

I'm not a developer, just a self-hosting nerd like everyone else, and I'm sorry for bringing that garbage into this thread.

Mar 20 '19 22:03 4oo4

I hope we can find some way to bring this back, because I think nextCloud as a personal library, for epub and so much more, is just a really awesome idea. And I'm really bummed out about it not working :(

Mar 21 '19 00:03 BloodyIron

Bump? Anyone prepared to fork?

Jul 03 '19 20:07 BloodyIron

Tried the manual override to xml for v15 and it made my nextCloud completely unstable, had to manually disable the app with OCC CLI.

:(

Jul 03 '19 20:07 BloodyIron

It's an abandoned app, try Ebook reader instead. 😉

Jul 04 '19 12:07 ghost

Thanks, just did. Ebook reader is a little clunky, but for a 0.0.1 release, I would say that it has exceeded my expectations, and works well enough.

Jul 04 '19 14:07 rlitman

It's a good replacement for ebook displaying.

When this application is enabled publicly shared ebook documents will also get shown in the ebook reader instead of only showing a single static snapshot of the document.

This doesn't work for me, unfortunately.

Jul 04 '19 15:07 ghost

I tried it with a few epub files. There is no way to flip pages with the mouse, but you can get to the table of contents by clicking on the hamburger, and you can use your cursor keys to flip pages. I am not sure how that would work in a mobile interface.

Jul 04 '19 15:07 rlitman