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Bug 168514

Summary: Remote development server lacking 'zip' does not fail in an infomative manner
Product: contrib Reporter: nicholaspalko <nicholaspalko>
Component: RemoteFSAssignee: remotefs@contrib <remotefs>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: blocker    
Priority: P4    
Version: 6.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:

Description nicholaspalko 2009-07-13 23:54:44 UTC 
When setting up a new remote development host (server: Linux, client: Vista) with [Host Properties].[Synchronization] =
'Secure Copy', if 'zip' is not installed on the host server, the server's include files are not initially copied back to
the client, and Code Assistance will (obviously) not work.

This is reported in .netbeans/6.7/var/log/messages.log as 'Error: Invalid value during reading remote string: scp: ...'.
It would be much more useful to point out the root cause of the error, that the 'zip' program is lacking on the host,
rather than the resulting error, which is that the scp failed due to an invalid value.

This is a beautiful product, and many thanks for your fine work