Recently there had been a lot of small bits I wanted to mention, but I don't have the time. Also, I'm never quite confident that they would interest anyone.
One thing I did find extremely interesting is Net::SFTP::Server. A long time ago when I wrote Test::SFTP, I had a problem with SFTP giving me weird results and getting confused about extreme usage cases of Net::SFTP, so I had decided to write a testing module. However, Net::SFTP has the same problems as Net::Perl::SSH of very long and difficult dependencies, not getting updated too frequently and not having a normal testing suite. Test::SFTP itself doesn't have a testing suite (which I should be ashamed of, I know) because I didn't know testing as good as I know these days but mostly because I had no idea how to test it really. I wrote simple examples but couldn't be sure I wouldn't cause damage with them.
My conclusion was that we need some sort of SSH daemon and SFTP daemon modules, and we could run tests through them. That will also help me test testing modules that I write against them. Alas, this is a _very_ difficult task or at least very time and energy-consuming. I definitely wasn't up for the job. But I always hoped the module would get written.
Enter Salvador Fandino Garcia! I gotta say I really love this guy. He's written a lot of excellent modules (most recently that I use is Net::OpenSSH). Apparently Mr. Garcia is now working on yet another great module called Net::SFTP::Server which is an SFTP server!
Since Salvador writes dynamic modules which you can plug in and out all over the place, that means a LOT to us! Several uses would be:
So, to Salvador Fandino Garcia: thank you!
