Re: SFTP Support

[Kristopher Ives <kristopher ives stoysnet com>]

I would be willing to add remote file system with GIO in a PPA version of meld. My employer requires this feature.

Cheers,
Kris

On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 07:49 +1000, Kai Willadsen wrote:
> On 26 June 2010 03:08, Kristopher Ives <kristopher ives stoysnet com> wrote:
> > Is there support for opening files over SFTP like with gEdit? I know I could
> > work around this with a persistent mount, but I have a lot of different SFTP
> > sites I have to access and I want to do graphical diffing between them
> > without caching or that kind of mounting if it can be avoided.
>
> Hi Kris,
>
> Unfortunately, Meld doesn't support remote filesystems at all.
>
> We're currently in the situation where GnomeVFS is deprecated, so
> there's little motivation to add support for accessing files that way,
> but our current required glib versions don't include gio. A version
> bump that would allow gio/gvfs support is certainly on the cards, but
> there's no ETA on such support actually arriving.
>
> cheers,
> Kai