From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: Tramp 2.0 -> 2.1 migration woes Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:46:08 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20080127040051.GA16241@Clio.twb.ath.cx> <87sl0jxu4g.fsf@gmx.de> <20080128021310.GA3075@Clio.twb.ath.cx> <20080128155710.GB2378@Clio.twb.ath.cx> <20080129003430.GA10119@Clio.twb.ath.cx> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201794378 14561 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2008 15:46:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:46:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Trent W. Buck" , emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, rfrancoise@debian.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 31 16:46:38 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JKbcb-0002zE-AV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:46:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKbc9-0000PV-VL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:46:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKbc0-0000My-90 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:46:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKbby-0000ML-Nt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:45:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKbby-0000MC-FK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:45:58 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JKbby-0007K0-Fa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:45:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mx10.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JKbbx-0000Y2-PI for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:45:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JKbbu-0007JB-60 for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:45:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailrelay2.alcatel.de ([194.113.59.96]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JKbbt-0007Hr-MD for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:45:54 -0500 Original-Received: from slbhab.alcatel.de (slbhab.bln.sel.alcatel.de [149.204.63.218]) by mailrelay2.alcatel.de (8.13.4/8.13.4/ICT) with ESMTP id m0VFjEUD026507; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:45:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:51:26 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (hpux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 149.204.45.73 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:87869 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:20824 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> The example above couldn't be handled by Tramp, because it does not >> support multi hops with an ftp method at the end. Tramp forwards all >> ftp related actions to ange-ftp, which opens a *local* ftp client >> subprocess. > > Couldn't it open a subprocess with start-file-process instead? It could. But this would be a change in the ange-ftp interface, which would need to be instructed *not* to open a local ftp client this case. Until now, ange-ftp does not know of Tramp ... I'll put it on the todo. Not at a prominent place, though. > Stefan Best regards, Michael.