On 18 July 2015 at 18:45, Märt Põder <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems to me that Meld 3.12.3 for some reason happens to support URIs like: > > sftp://user@server:port/path > > I presume it's not protocol specific (I also tried plain FTP and it seemed to > work too). <snip> > It'd be good if we can figure out, why are these URIs enabled and what does > enable it. And I get my version number which I can use for packaging the > feature requested for Nautilus Compare (of course, I could just test it in > the wild and come up with some estimation).
So my best guess is... Meld doesn't support this at all, and gio/gvfs (or something) is magically mounting it as a local filesystem and giving us a path. I'm pretty confident that *something* like this must be happening, purely because I'm currently in the (very very slow) process of trying to move Meld's file handling from using Python's file-only APIs to using GIO for file access. As for why it happens to work on newer versions, I really couldn't say. It could be the GnomeVFS support removal that that bug report points to, or... something else entirely. There have been several changes to command-line argument parsing (including in 3.13) which could also affect the behaviour. The bottom line is that it's not officially supported yet, and I'm surprised whenever I hear that it apparently kind-of works. cheers, Kai _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
