[Avocado-devel] remote_commander

[Andrei Stepanov]

Hi, please review https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado-vt/pull/415
Is it okay? If yes, please merge it.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Lukáš Doktor <ldoktor at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hello Andrei,
>
> as I told you, remote_commander was implemented by Jiří Župka 2 years ago
> just before he had left the company. The intention was to provide universal
> remote execution utility.
>
> It was meant to be language independent (running python/bash/xxx on the
> other side) and transport independent (tcp/serial
> console/virtio_console/pipe/...) and to avoid problem in the channel the
> communication is encoded.
>
> remote_commander is a very nice feature, the only problem is no users. So
> feel free to take it and adjust it to your needs, but beware it was never
> really used so it will probably contain bugs (there is at least one known
> bug described in the PRs).
>
> Happy hacking,
> Lukáš
>
> Dne 24.3.2016 v 13:03 Andrei Stepanov napsal(a):
>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I know that "remote_commander" is not widely used. There is only one
>> example how to use it. But, anyway... I do not understand one approach.
>> To be exact : why are pickable-commands encoded with Base64? What is
>> wrong about sending raw Python strings?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
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