[squeak-dev] Things to improve in 5.3

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Tue Sep 17 17:33:05 UTC 2019


> On 17.09.2019, at 19:28, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>> On 2019-09-17, at 3:08 AM, Edgar J. De Cleene <edgardec2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Some to improve is FileList .
>> In the left panel menu we should have choices to see directories as
>> date,name,size like we have in the right panel for files
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> Other file list related improvements might involve fixing the remote directories stuff; a couple of years ago I pointed out that the ServerDirectory & FTP classes weren't in good operating condition, not to mention that the exemplar server was the very dead st.cs.uiuc.edu.
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> FTP isn't really a lot of use these days but surely somebody would enjoy making it sftp (or similar) capable?

careful,sftp is ssh-based and a different beast.
ftps (ie, ftp over ssl/tls) is seldom used and way slower.

FTP is still used in a _lot_ of places…

Best regards
	-Tobias


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> Alternatively, dump that code as useless. 
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> tim





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