At 12:09 -0800 01.25.2001, Benjamin Trott wrote:
>> How about coordinating with the author of Net::SSH, and integrating
>> both your codebases?
>
>This is an option. Some of the downsides:
>
>* Since the current Net::SSH on CPAN is basically a wrapper around the ssh
>command line client, and mine is a Perl implementation of an ssh client, the
>code bases are *drastically* different. There is no overlap whatsoever, so I
>can't see it being anything more than a namespace takeover.
>
>* Despite the fact that I think a Perl Net::SSH is very useful and
>beneficial, I think there still is a place for a wrapper around the client.
>Things like Rhosts/RSA authentication (which require read access to the
>server host key, readable only by root) are trickier when using a Perl
>module than when using the ssh client, which is setuid root.
>
>I will get in touch w/ the author of the current Net::SSH to determine what
>he feels about this, though.
Yes; I don't recall seeing Net::SSH discussed here before it ws released,
but when I noticed it on the CPAN, I was bothered by the fact that it was
just a wrapper, not an implementation. I think people have come to expect
Net::${PRTOTOCOL} modules to be Perl/XS/etc. implementations of that
protocol. This is quite unfortunate, IMO.
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