Re: Integrate Tramp

[Stefan Monnier]

> I stand by my previous opinion: do not try to auto-detect whether ssh
> or telnet or Kerberos login or SSL-Telnet or ftp or whatnot should be
> used.  Let the user specify this.

Complete agreement.

> But do try to autodetect the other parameters, once the network
> application has been set.  For example, autodetect whether base64
> encoding or uuencoding should be used.  Possibly it's also possible
> to figure out whether and out-of-band method should be used.

Agreed as well.  You might even just go ahead and assume mimencode
is available and if it fails revert to perl and if that also fails
default to uu(en|de)code (so you only do the detection if it is needed).

> ¹ Is this experiment unfair due to our specific firewall
>   configuration?  I'm not a networking expert.

I don't think so.


        Stefan