ANNOUNCE: FTFTP 0.9, "Fault-Tolerant FTP" TCL-Only Extension
Ed Suominen
client in TCLLIB in my highly demanding TKSEC application, which
performs an FTP polling operation about every 15 seconds, day in and day
out. I have a *lot* of time writing and testing an alternative package,
which uses just five lines of code from the original FTP client.
I am very happy with the reliability* of this package now. It appears to
be quite fault tolerant, recovering in the midst of an FTP operation
even after the network connection is completely cut off and then
restored. I have had it continuously polling an FTP site for TKSEC
connection commands for long sessions, periodically transmitting,
renaming, and receiving status files and getting directory listings
literally thousands of times with no unrecovered errors.
So, it appears to be time to do the only natural thing for a TCL
developer -- give it away (as so many others have done with their
excellent work)! The package is now available for download and
installation as a TCL extension (FTFTP 0.9) at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40844
P.S. - How does one go about offering something for possible inclusion
in TCLLIB? With just a little bit of work to add FTP functions I don't
need and didn't include, I think this package would be a very nice
high-reliability* enhancement to TCLLIB to go with the existing FTP package.
* "High reliability" statements in this message and any documentation or
comments accompanying the FTFTP package merely reflect the perhaps
optimistic view of the author about the software's performance, and do
not imply any guarantee or warranty. Please see license accompanying the
software regarding this *absolute* lack of any warranty for this freely
distributable open-source software.
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