Re: Further Midnight Commander development

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt metux de>]

* Slava Zanko <slavazanko gmail com> schrieb:

Hi,

> > huh, I'm not sure whether mvc fits in here. 
> 
> mcvfs - VIEW; core (signal handling, User events etc) - CONTROLLER,
> slang,mcslang,ncurses - VIEWs.. Why not? :)

you meant: mcvfs = model ?

> > Well, if we say "everything's a file" and the model is the vfs 
> > (including things like search results represented as filesystem),
> > we could make some steps in this direction :)
> 
> Yep, everything is a file. Network connects - files too. :)

yeah, even sockets: 

    cat tcp://somehost:port/

(I'll add this to libmvfs in the next days ...)

> For example:
> $ cat ~/secret/path/to/my-one-of-many-many-server.mcvfs-ftp
> host: xxx.xxx.xx
> port: 12345
> user: xxxx
> passwd: xxxx
> passv: 1
> ...
> 
> By pressing 'Enter' to the *.mcvfs-ftp file (via mc.ext) ftp session
> will establish... Is this bad think?

hmm, you suggest something like we know as "desktop shortcuts" from
certain certain DE's ? Well, perhaps it would be even better to just
directly support well-known DE's shortcut files ?

<snip>
> "some bash support fixups"
> (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2008-December/msg00062.html)
>    Patch already applied, but not in official branch - in our mc-4.6.3 :)
>    Patches from our branch will transfer to an oficial branch.

What happened to 4.6.2 ?

> segfault-on-invalid-mtime fix
> (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2008-December/msg00067.html)
>    Ticket #96 (http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/96)

Quite critical, should really go to the next release (4.6.2 ?)

> All your published patches now processed.

Thx!

> BTW, after applying all gathehing patches, we can assign version
> 4.7.0-pre1 ;)
> Because a lot of changes compared to the current 4.6.2-pre1...

hmm, what major changes do you have in mind ?


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