Re: Kommander news and fund raising

On Tuesday 26 February 2008 2:05:29 pm Mark A. Taff wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 February 2008 09:37:56 Eric Laffoon wrote:
> > BTW when I get time I plan on developing some new Kommander plugins for
> > Quanta. One thing I'm looking at doing is a tool to synchronize online
> > and local projects, probably using a PHP script online to communicate
> > with. I am just so busy.
>
> Um, why not just copy the code for lftp's -mirror function into Quanta? Or
> even the rsync algorithm? That, with a quick kommander dialog for settings,
> should do the trick without neding a php script on the server.

I'm assuming both of these functions automate, but one argument against an FTP 
function is what if you have shut down FTP on your sever for security 
reasons. Ideally I would use KIO to match what is in the project, but I'm not 
sure we exposed this in QuantaIf for number one, and I need to plug it into 
something like a KDE file widget for number two... That means possibly 
patching Quanta and and creating a new plugin widget. Also anything that 
automates syncronization removes my ability to offer a "de-cruft" option to 
clean up the site, as well as manually select what you want to bring down. 
There may be settings files you don't want download. It's possible a project 
manager may want to protect and categorize too, which is not possible without 
control.

It's fairly easy to do this with the HTTP plugin, and possibly it could also 
be done with a remote ssh shell, though I'd have to ponder how to do it. 
Anyway the idea is to have something useful for more than just one protocol. 
Using the PHP backend it would not matter what your protocol was as long as 
you had PHP on your server, which almost everyone does. It's not perfect, but 
it's my best idea so far.
>
> I'm afraid I can't give any money right now, as I'm recently unemployed. 
> Best of luck on raising some cash.

Best of luck to you. You've been a solid supporter over the years and I'd like 
to think someone of your character would be in demand by astute employers.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark


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Eric Laffoon
Project Lead - kdewebdev module