tramp: Issues
10 Debatable Issues and What Was Decided
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• The uuencode method does not always work.
‘uudecode’ on some systems cannot write to stdout, but TRAMP
depends on encoding and decoding programs to be able to read from
stdin and write to stdout.
We can find ways to circumvent ‘uudecode’’s ability to write to
stdout, such as writing to a temporary file and then piping that to
stdout.
But I have decided not to implement workarounds as they are too
fragile to work reliably. Some on systems, TRAMP will not have
uuencode method.
• The TRAMP file name syntax differs between Emacs and XEmacs.
The Emacs maintainers wish to use a unified file name syntax for
Ange-FTP and TRAMP so that users don’t have to learn yet another
syntax though it is okay to learn new extensions.
For the XEmacs maintainers, the disruption from a unified file name
syntax are not worth the gains. Firstly, the XEmacs package system
relies on EFS for downloading new packages and therefore is already
installed. On the other hand, TRAMP is not installed by default in
XEmacs. Unifying will require TRAMP installed from the start.
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