FTP client (was .. RE: [TxMt] Re: Bare Bones [was: Public to-do list for TM (was: TextileBundle?)

[Allan Odgaard]

On Mar 23, 2005, at 8:01, Luc Heinrich wrote:

>> Is the intention to
>> A) keep TM a pure editor with a few extra features like edit-over-ftp
>> B) allow it to integrate with a few existing apps (standalone FTP 
>> clients)
>> C) write your own fantastic complementary programs which integrate 
>> really
>> well with TM
>> D) extend TM into something approaching an IDE by adding these to TM 
>> itself
>> E) ??
> E) Provide a comprehensive TM plugin Cocoa API for third parties 
> developers, à-la JEdit.

Yes, definitely A and E.

There are IMO many good reasons why I should only focus on the actual 
text editing part of TextMate, but this naturally begs for good 3rd 
party extensibility of the editor.

It does bother me tremendously that I have to spend my time writing ftp 
support since a) this should be made available to all applications 
through e.g. a decent Finder implementation instead of having each app 
re-invent the wheel, b) this is probably unused by the majority of 
TextMate users and c) it has nothing to do with a text editor.

But seeing how Finder doesn't have useful ftp support and the minority 
that needs this in TM is a large minority (which are all unfamiliar or 
unwilling to use Interachy!?! ;) ), I'm letting this one slip -- also 
because I'll anyway need to make the project drawer support arbitrary 
sources with callbacks (like svn/cvs), so ftp will just be a plugin 
that uses this system, most likely based on libcurl and ftpparse.c 
(except that this doesn't support rename and move operations).