[qmtest] PATCH: RemoteHost support

Stefan Seefeld stefan at codesourcery.com
Mon Jun 13 17:13:20 UTC 2005


Mark Mitchell wrote:

> Yes, I was being a little bit cute.  But, I really did want to emphasize 
> the "remote" aspect of the class; things like "UploadFile" don't 
> generally make sense with a local host; it just happens that we treat 
> local hosts as a special case of remote ones.  I also thought that 
> "Host" would be more likely to conflict with other classes; maybe, for 
> example, people have "Host" classes that have methods like "GetIPAddr".
> 
> I don't feel very strongly, though; if you think "Host" is better, I'll 
> change it.  What do you think?

I think your documentation makes it very clear that the class serves as
an abstraction to transfer and execute files on (potentially remote) hosts,
so I don't see much potential for confusion. :-)
Yes, I'd prefer to call it 'qm.host.Host' and the extension kind a 'host'.

Thanks,
		Stefan



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