I have a few requests please. I might have mentioned some of them over email few months back, but it's good to have them mentioned in the forum as well. They were low priority at the time, but perhaps it's now time to review them again now?
1. File Attributes on SFTP and other VFSs that could support it.
2. Symlinks on SFTP and other VFSs that could support it.
3. Make Tools to work on all VFSs that could support it. Ideally, have the option to pass selected files to the tool as parameters either in the form of a link (e.g., sftp://user@host/path) or in the form of a path of the local copy of the file, which is watched for changes (same way as External Editor works). For example making diffs before uploading files to SFTP is very common and this feature would make it much easier.
4. This is not VFS related, just a small cosmetic change. I would appreciate if theme editor allowed different colour for Size/Date columns in the list mode to allow the same look like Finder where Size/Date columns are lighter colour than Name column.
Many Thanks
Operations on Remote VFS
Re: Operations on Remote VFS
Hi hugo187,
It might take a few months - changes aren't so fast within an 85KSLoC app
On the other hand, as file operations will be basically re-written, it's possible to extend a functionality of particular ones (i.e. file attributes changing and symlinks manipulation) to support VFSes on par with a native POSIX.
I'd gladly get on with it, but I'm doing a major reconstruction of a subsystem which provides a functionality of file operations.
It might take a few months - changes aren't so fast within an 85KSLoC app
On the other hand, as file operations will be basically re-written, it's possible to extend a functionality of particular ones (i.e. file attributes changing and symlinks manipulation) to support VFSes on par with a native POSIX.
Re: Operations on Remote VFS
Thanks for the good news, Mike. I don't mind waiting.
Re: Operations on Remote VFS
Some progress here:
It was quite entertaining thing to write since OpenSSH and ProFTPD have invalid parameters order in their implementation of the SSH_FXP_SYMLINK request
I've added a support for symlinks creation and/or alteration for SFTP.
It was quite entertaining thing to write since OpenSSH and ProFTPD have invalid parameters order in their implementation of the SSH_FXP_SYMLINK request
Re: Operations on Remote VFS
Great stuff. Looking forward to test this.
Re: Operations on Remote VFS
1,2 is done in 1.2.2
Re: Operations on Remote VFS
I have been using 1.2.2 about half a day now and everything works as expected. No issues so far. Very happy with the other new features as well. Many Thanks!