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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1995-06-23 22:11:18 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1995-06-23 22:11:18 (GMT)
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@@ -6,27 +6,47 @@ Filesystem, RCS and CVS client and server classes
This directory contains various modules and classes that support
remote file system operations.
-rrcs.py Remote RCS client command line interface
-rrcs Script to put in your bin directory
+CVS stuff
+---------
-rcvs.py Remote CVS client command line interface
rcvs Script to put in your bin directory
-
-sumtree.py Old demo for FSProxy
-cmptree.py First FSProxy client (used to sync from the Mac)
+rcvs.py Remote CVS client command line interface
cvslib.py CVS admin files classes (used by rrcs)
+cvslock.py CVS locking algorithms
+
+RCS stuff
+---------
+
+rrcs Script to put in your bin directory
+rrcs.py Remote RCS client command line interface
+
rcsclient.py Return an RCSProxyClient instance
(has reasonable default server/port/directory)
+RCSProxy.py RCS proxy and server classes (on top of rcslib.py)
+
+rcslib.py Local-only RCS base class (affects stdout &
+ local work files)
+
+FSProxy stuff
+-------------
+
+sumtree.py Old demo for FSProxy
+cmptree.py First FSProxy client (used to sync from the Mac)
FSProxy.py Filesystem interface classes
-RCSProxy.py RCS interface classes
+
+Generic client/server stuff
+---------------------------
client.py Client class
server.py Server class
security.py Security mix-in class (not very secure I think)
+Other generic stuff
+-------------------
+
cmdfw.py CommandFrameWork class
(used by rcvs, should be used by rrcs as well)
@@ -89,12 +109,13 @@ Server in order to match the class names.
*** Security warning: this version requires that you have a file
-$HOME/.python_keyfile at the server and client side containing two comma-
-separated numbers. The security system at the moment makes no guarantees
-of actuallng being secure -- however it requires that the key file
-exists and contains the same numbers at both ends for this to work.
-(You can specify an alternative keyfile in $PYTHON_KEYFILE).
+$HOME/.python_keyfile at the server and client side containing two
+comma- separated numbers. The security system at the moment makes no
+guarantees of actuallng being secure -- however it requires that the
+key file exists and contains the same numbers at both ends for this to
+work. (You can specify an alternative keyfile in $PYTHON_KEYFILE).
Have a look at the Security class in security.py for details;
basically, if the key file contains (x, y), then the security server
-class chooses a random number z (the challenge) in the range 10..100000
-and the client must be able to produce pow(z, x, y) (i.e. z**x mod y).
+class chooses a random number z (the challenge) in the range
+10..100000 and the client must be able to produce pow(z, x, y)
+(i.e. z**x mod y).