Hi Geoffroy! This sounds extremely cool. My little advice is try to concentrate in performance. I mean, you can have all the features you want, but if you have to wait 5 seconds for each character you type, then it will not make sense. So, from my point of view, is to get an acceptable performance writing in the workspace. After that, you can add features.

Just my opinion.

Hope you continue with this work.

Mariano

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Geoffroy Couprie <geo.couprie@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,

Following the discussion on VM remote administration (
http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/pharo-users/2010-May/000268.html
), I started working on something like a remote workspace. So far, I'm
able to connect to a VM running Pharo with netcat, and execute some
code. It is not much, but it was fun to write, and I learned a lot of
things :)

Now, before I add new features, I feel I should ask if someone would
be interested by this, and what use case you would imagine:
-Connecting from another VM or sticking with netcat?
-Remote debugging (might not be easy, but should be fun to do)
-Sending commands to a lot of VMs at once (and querying status)
-Multiple connections possibles?
-Being able to save a session (like http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ )
-Authentication/encryption? Is there a way to use openssl, or should I
steal the 3DES code from RFB (it should be quick enough for text only
communication)?

Best regards,

Geoffroy

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