FileZilla 3 development diary

[botg]

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[lwc]

* Please add v2's local "view/edit" and "open" commands.
Thanks for adding both to v3.0.5. Nevertheless, while the local "open" works fine, the local "view/edit" only works while the program is both connected to some server and idle. Since it's a local command it should work regardless of what's happening remotely (just like the local "open" command).

Also, the option "remote file editing" should now be changed to just "file editing". Speaking of which, what does the option "inherit system's filetype associations" do?

* The remote editing is impossible to work with because it keeps asking me if I want to keep/delete the local temp file.
Just a reminder.

Please please please don't ignore those things, because they don't exist in v2.

[GoD]

You were looking for an app which can load and save mac os x icons.
Here is a new release of IcoFx. It can do that.
http://icofx.ro/

[boco]

But it doesn't run under Linux, does it?

[GoD]

It works with wine.

[botg]

It works with wine.

If you don't care about speed it's also possible to put OS X into a virtual machine.

All I want is free, cross-platform open source software capable of creating OS X icons. From the commandline.

[botg]

As many of you might have noticed already, FileZilla 3.0.9 is out which focuses on improving several aspects of the UI. Several new menu items have been added and the main statusbar got a facelift. In addition, many missing or duplicate keyboard mnemonics have been fixed in the settings dialog.
Under the hood, the resume behavior has changed, FileZilla will now automatically resume transfers after a non-critical transfer failure.


Since there's usually a one-week delay between release candidate and final release, I've spend the spare time on a small side-project. A while ago, a friend of mine asked me about the size of FileZilla, in particular how many lines of code. I had to disappoint him, since I didn't have any statistics. So for the past week I've been working on plotting code metrics.

While not yet finished, you can get a first glimpse of the things to come at http://code.filezilla-project.org/

A Python script generates the from the files in the SVN repository and writes it into a MySQL database. A second python script then fetches the data and with the help of RRDtool it plots some graphs.
The scripts are available in the SVN repository: https://filezilla.svn.sourceforge.net/s ... a/metrics/, but please don't use in a production environment yet, still very experimental.

Oh, and before anybody asks, the huge jump in the graphs is caused by the initial import of the PuTTY sources for SFTP support.

[botg]

My plans for 3.0.10: Commandline option parsing.

So far I'll add the following options:
-s, --site-manager Start with opened Site Manager
-c, --site=<str> Connect to specified Site Manager site
--close Closes all instances of FileZilla
<FTP URL> Connect to server

For the --close option I need to figure out how to only close instances running under the same user as the caller to avoid denial of service problems on multi-user systems.

I won't implement any options to start transfers like I did in FileZilla 2. Adding those to 2.x was a big mistake, people were using FileZilla in a way it hasn't been designed for. For automated transfers, people should (wish: have) to use a commandline client.

[Patte]

you mean like wget for downloading?

[botg]

Yes, and wput for uploading.

[boco]

wget and wput are multi-protocol, AFAIK. A FTP-only commandline client example is NcFTP.

[botg]

That one has a really bad license.

Better use lftp.

[botg]

Another new feature has been implemented. By right-clicking the list control header in the file lists, you can now change the column order and which columns should be visible. Only exception: Filename column cannot be hidden nor moved.

[designchris]

I just wanted to suggest a commandline option for connecting to a site before i found your plans for that.

-c, --site=<str> Connect to specified Site Manager site

I'm really amazed to see this already being around the corner.

Just an idea: A function to create desktop icons/shortcuts that use the -c option to open filezilla already connected to a specific site. Maybe a 6th button in the site-manager called "Shortcut" could serve to create those desktop shortcuts.

Many thanks for this awesome program!!

Chris

[Laco]

In the next version can you please put in an option to choose a default download location in settings?

I have already posted in the forum about this: http://forum.filezilla-project.org/view ... f=3&t=6564

I think it is a really basic feature but I still could not believe it wasn't there.
Keep up the good work!