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Did you try Paramiko for ssh transfer? |
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http://www.lag.net/paramiko/ |
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On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 02:03 -0400, Christopher Harvey wrote: |
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> This week I worked on remote editing of remote computers. One of the |
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> major goals for ventoo is to be able to edit multiple computers at the |
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> same time. Since Ventoo can parse config files into syntax trees it is |
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> possible to traverse many of these trees in parallel then display paths |
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> in the trees that are the same, and paths that differ, then let the user |
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> change all of the at the same time. |
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> I wanted to get remote editing working with one other computer, and I |
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> was going to use scp to transfer the files back and forth, but it turns |
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> out using scp with python is difficult, and any other method would |
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> require a few more weeks to integrate properly. One way or another, |
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> Ventoo is going to have to be able to access these remote files as if |
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> they were local files. To work in this direction I added a feature to |
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> ventoo that lets the user pick a root directory to work with and switch |
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> it as many times as he/she likes. The ASTs are reparsed every switch and |
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> the ui is updated. In the future, when editing multiple computers, the |
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> user would have to pick several of these roots, and a future developer |
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> would have to display the ASTs intelligently for editing. This week I |
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> laid the foundation for that to happen. As of now, the user can switch |
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> roots on the local machine, and if a remote root is mounted locally, |
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> edit the remote machine as well. |
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