I'll test it for you. Give me some guidelines if you will. I have a large complex Multi-OS network, with managed switches that support SFTP.
Bob On Jun 5, 2011, at 11:16 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > Folks, > > Today, more precisely at 3:03 AM, the SFTP external worked for the first > time and transfered its first file. It was a simple text file called > test.txt whose content was simply "YES", but hey, it worked. > > The SFTP external is based on libCURL and libSSH2. Right now I managed to > build it only for Mac OS X with x86 processors but I think I am able to > build it for PPC and Linux as well. Windows might be a little tricky since I > am out of a windows machine right now. > > The main issue was that the libcurl version that is bundled with Mac OS X > has no SFTP support, so I had to build my own from source and that had > dependencies such as libssh2 and others. After some effort, I could finally > build everything and managed to convince XCode to link statically with them > (XCode kept trying to link with Mac OS X bundled curl library). So after > linking for the first time, it managed to transfer a single text file over > SFTP connection. Right now it is a blocking call till I figure out how to do > callbacks. > > There is a silly movie proving it here: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1340110/XcodeSnapz002.mov > or if you want to view it over the web: http://www.vimeo.com/24707584 (it is > waiting in line to be converted right now) > > There is still a lot of work to do before releasing this external but we're > now much closer to SFTP support in LiveCode. > > This external will be commercial and will probably cost about USD 99 to > cover my costs of developing and the amount of tea I am drinking to calm me > down after working with gdb... > > :-D > > Now, who among you all is felling like a guinea pig and want to join the > beta tester group? Initial beta will launch for Mac OS X and then Linux, > after that I will worry about Windows. > > -- > http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
