Re: [Duplicity-talk] Retry on exceptions / different patches/attempts

[Charles Knowlton]

About what time will the next version be released?
I just want to get an idea of about the time frame we are looking at.

Regards,
Charles Knowlton

On May 22, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Kenneth Loafman wrote:

> dAniel hAhler wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I've provided/extended a patch [1] for the FTP backend of duplicity,
> > which retries a failed command in case of an exception.
> > This is very useful and in fact required with some backup servers.
> > Unfortunately this only provides this functionality for the FTP
> > backend.
>
> Thanks for the patches.  I'm working on them now, along with a  
> patch to ftplib.py that is not complete.  Python's ftplib.py breaks  
> with ProFTPD with or without the patch.  Error handling in FTP is  
> messy.
>
> > Now, that there's already a similar patch for SCP [2], I think it
> > should get refactored and become a feature/implementation of the
> > Backend base class itself, so all backends make use of it and there
> > can be some global config settings for it.
> >
> > Additionally, it's a lot more maintainable to have this type of
> > functionality in the parent class than in each child, by applying the
> > different patches/attempts.
> > What do you think?
> > What's planned?
>
> Actually, there's similar functionality, via patches, for most, if  
> not all of the backends, all slightly different, and all having  
> different needs w.r.t. determining exactly what an error is for its  
> protocol. Refactoring into the Backend class will come in one of  
> the next releases.  Its truly a sticky problem.
>
> > and btw: where does the duplicity source get hosted? Will the project
> > stay at savannah.nongnu.org? Can we switch to Subversion (instead of
> > CVS)?
>
> It's still at Savannah.  I see no reason to change, but I would  
> like to move to Subversion ASAP.
>
> > I'm happy that there's finally a maintainer again!
> > Thanks a lot.
> > [1] http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?5183
> > [2] http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?5794
>
> These will be implemented in the next version, 0.4.3.
> Thanks for the help!
>
> ...Ken
>
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