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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kio_sftp rewrite
From:       Carlo <brandon.ml () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-08-05 13:32:02
Message-ID: 3262b6180908050632n7b9d69bs9fd7ef0528a61a59 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Andreas Schneider<mail@cynapses.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 August 2009 13:32:23 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
>> less code is good and more features is good; my questions would be about
>> libssh. it seems fairly young and it isn't used by many other apps yet
>> (though it has to start somewhere, right?).
>
> libssh wasn't active for some time, then I joined the project and we are on
> the way for world domination now! We get more and more contributiors at the
> moment. We plan to have a release at least every 6 month. If there are serious
> bugs we will to bugfix releases as soon as possible.
>
>> worst case scenarios would be that libssh either isn't developed anymore in
>> the near future and/or it develops some serious bugs that don't get fixed.
>> i suppose we could always roll back to the current kio_sftp at that point.
>
> I don't hope hat we will introduce serious bugs or don't fix them. I've put a
> lot of effort into libssh and I don't want to throw it away in the future.
>
>> another issue is windows support; right now kio_sftp works on windows. the
>> libssh website says: "Runs and tested under x86_64, x86, ARM, Sparc32, PPC
>> under Linux, BSD, MacOSX and Solaris". if there is no windows support then
>> that would be a regression for the windows side of things. (not that i'm a
>> supporter or fan of windows, just stating the obvious points here :)
>
> libssh 0.3 has *no official* Windows support yet. I build windows binaries
> with mingw since 0.3.0, see http://www.libssh.org/files/win32/
> I know that there are windows users of libssh cause patches are flying in.
>
> libssh 0.4 will have official Windows support. I just have to fix this MSVC
> crap first ;)
>
if you want any help with the windows porting join us at the
#kde-windows irc channel on freenode and/or kde-windows@kde.org
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