I too am a huge (unfortunate) fan of working on remote files...
This topic has been discussed at great length. Since it is apparent none
of the existing solutions work nicely and as elegantly as working on local
code we all have come up with less than ideal solutions for solving this
problem. I for example use RBrowser because I like that - but again it is
less than perfect. So.. We need a better solution. Writing down the
short list of requirements
- Tie to Textmate - very closely
- Allow me to easily create a project out of remote files
- Allow me to add remote files
- Allow me to search those remote files
- Save the file back
- Connect via ssh
- Should be able to routinely (background) poll the remote system
and determine the status of the file. This should be able to be turned
off or time adjusted based on user needs. I wouldn't need this per se.
- Should have an integrated browser mechanism which 1) gets on a
remote system (ssh) 2) allows you to traverse a remote file system
- Might want to be able to bind a command to a save ( svn commit )
feature
- Might want to be able to bind a command to the file status ( p4
fstat ) feature
OK what do we need to add shorten or comment on?? Perhaps the cyberduck /
rbrowser / macfuse / Olrik folks are listening. I think David Olrik's
solution is a decent start but needs a bit more polishing. A better
solution can't be far off..
Thoughts??