Re: [ptp-dev] 2.0 Release Planning

[Greg Watson <g.watson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Many thanks.

Greg

On Mar 5, 2008, at 8:28 AM, Daniel Felix Ferber (Linux) wrote:

> Hi Greg,
>
> About Remote Tools:
>
> * A brief list of the major features
> 1) High level library to access to remote machines over SSH  
> connection, based on jsch. Includes:
> - Authentication with username/password or public/private key.
> - Execution of process/shell script on remote machine. Multiple,  
> parallel executions. Reuse of connections simultaneous while  
> supported by the SSH server.
> - X11 forwarding, stdin/stdout/stderr forwarding.
> - File transfer from/to remote host. Recursive upload/download of  
> directories.
> - Listings from remote file system. Enumeration of remote files and  
> directories.
> - Local and remote port forwarding.
> - Status of the remote machine. Used ports, time, user id, group id.
> - Concept of jobs, that are sequential remote operations and local  
> method calls that perform a task.
> 2) Remote Target Environment Model
> - Model of remote target, that is capable of running remote jobs,  
> launches and tools.
> - Extension point to define new types of remote targets.
> - Management of instances of remote targets. GUI for creating/ 
> editing instances of remote targets.
> 3) Generic host remote target.
> - Implementation of a remote target environment type that connects  
> directly to a remote machine.
> 4) Launcher framework for remote applications.
> - Easily extensible to create new, specific launchers.
> - Extensions to launch additional tools both on remote and local  
> machine (profiling/debugging/).
> - Extensions to process output of application.
> - Configuration of environment variables, process arguments and  
> working directory.
> - Upload of dependencies and input data.
> - Download of result data.
> 5) Utility classes. the most important are:
> - Customized SWT widgets
> - Mac address manipulation
> - Command line parsing
>
> * A brief list of the documentation and other non-code aspects
> Currently, the only available documentation is the Javadoc in the  
> source code.
>
> * A brief list of non-provisional API's and extension points
> org.eclipse.ptp.remotetools.environment.core:
> - remoteEnvironmentControlDelegate
> - remoteTargetProvider
> org.eclipse.ptp.remotetools.environment.launcher:
> - observer
> - launchConfigurationMacroSupplier
>
> * Anything else you want in the review
> None.
>
> The dates are fine for us.
>
> Best regards,
> Daniel Felix Ferber
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