From kde-core-devel  Wed Aug 05 21:27:59 2009
From: Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:27:59 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: kio_sftp rewrite
Message-Id: <200908052327.59739.aacid () kde ! org>
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A Dimecres, 5 d'agost de 2009, Urs Wolfer va escriure:
> On Wednesday 05 August 2009 15:39:07 Andreas Schneider wrote:
> > Hello list!
> >
> > My name is Andreas Schneider, I'm a developer and the maintainer of
> > libssh, a library which implements the SSH Protocol.
> > During the openSUSE Hack Week I've rewritten kio_sftp using libssh with
> > the a little help from Dirk Müller. The old kioslave implemented the sftp
> > protocol itself, executed the ssh binary and piped everything into the
> > binary.
> >
> > With libssh you have less code to maintain and the new slave provides
> > more features than the old one (datails for list and stat, resume
> > support).
> >
> > I have a patch of my current work for KDE 4.3. You can find it here:
> >
> > http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/1226/
> >
> > The slave works just fine here, but still needs more testing. If you want
> >  to test it you need at least libssh 0.3.2. You can get it at
> > http://www.libssh.org/.
> >
> > If you're interested I would maintain kio_sftp and add more features. I'm
> > implementing support for openssh extensions in libssh at the moment
> >  (statvfs, fstatvfs). This would allow us to check available disk space
> >  first before we copy anything to the server.
>
> Sounds very promising since this is one of the important kioslaves for me.
>
> Have you also compared performace wise?
>
> Oh, btw, what's the real difference between this one and the fish kioslave?
> Could we drop fish?

fish provides support for ssh servers that are not sftp enabled.

Albert

>
> Bye
> urs