Re: [Tigervnc-devel] [Tigervnc-commits] SF.net SVN: tigervnc:[3767] trunk/unix/download-xorg

2009-04-14 Thread Peter Åstrand
+if hassubprocess == 1: +assert 0 == subprocess.call([wget, -N, -c, -O, fname, loc]) +else: +assert 0 == os.spawnvp(os.P_WAIT, wget, [-N, -c, -O, fname, loc]) Why not use os.spawnvp even with newer versions? Less complex. Best regards, --- Peter

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] RHEL 4 build

2009-04-14 Thread Peter Åstrand
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, DRC wrote: However, I ran into a problem with dbus. RHEL 4 ships a pre-release version (0.22) which isn't compatible with the X server 1.5 source. For comparison, RHEL 5 uses a significantly newer version (1.12.) Unfortunately, however, other system applications are tied

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] File transfer

2009-04-14 Thread Peter Åstrand
I agree. Also, it wasn't just the implementation that was broken - the special protocol had many problems as well. I would say that the design was flawed from the start: If a file transfer feature should at all be included in a VNC implementation, it should at least be based on some existing

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] File transfer

2009-04-14 Thread Matt Campbell
Hello Peter: Thank you for your comments. The file transfer feature in the VNC4 branch of TightVNC always felt flimsy to me. The UI was especially inadequate for keyboard-only users. I made several modifications to the UI, which I would contribute back to that branch of TightVNC if it were

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] File transfer

2009-04-14 Thread DRC
Well, except for that fact that it would require building TigerVNC against OpenSSL, which has its own set of issues. Why not just set up a separate SFTP or SSh server on the Windows server? I use the Cygwin SSh daemon to accomplish this, but there are others that are easier to set up. There are