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summary: SSH client packaged as a Visual Basic component
class: wish: This is a request for an enhancement.
difficulty: taxing: Needs external things we don't have (standards, users etc)
depends: dll-frontend
priority: dormant: This is an old feature request that we no longer think is relevant.

A lot of people ask for a Visual Basic component that implements an
SSH client, so that they can include it in their VB programs and
automatically get securely in touch with other systems and issue
commands.

I think the simplest way to do this would be to implement it as a
thin veneer on top of the DLL front end (once we've done _that_).

The major direct difficulty in this work is that I know nothing
about VB components and how to create one, and so I can't even think
about beginning this without some outside help. But also, it can't
be done unless the DLL work is done first.

SGT, 2024-11-17: classifying this wish as dormant. If Visual Basic GUI
components are still in use at all, I haven't seen one in decades, and
nobody has been asking for this since!

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2024-11-17 14:53:03 +0000)