unencumbered terminal emulators

[Brian K. White]

Just discovered something that looks even better than my putty fork for 
an open source unencumbered, customizable so it can be given the 
necessary features to make it useful for vars/integrators like the 
typical filepro developer.

http://en.poderosa.org/present/about_poderosa.html

Like PuTTY and others it's open source, but unlike them it has a plugin 
architecture so rather than fork putty and hack all over it's code to do 
what I happen to want, and thereby make it a big fat maintenance pain in 
the rear to sync back up with future versions of PuTTY, with this one 
depending on how good the plugin system is, maybe I could make my 
customizations in the form of plugins. That would be way way easier to 
maintain going forward.
I wouldn't be trying to add things that the upstream would never want in 
the main product and so I could do whatever I needed in the plugin(s) 
and still always be able to track the latest version of the main app.

The putty fork is good because it makes something possible, which is 
1000% better than impossible, but this looks even better because it 
makes the same thing not merely possible but convenient and efficient.

Only problem is starting all over with a new app after having finally 
gotten putty to do everything I need, but it looks like a smarter 
investment in work going forward to develop a plugin than a fork.

I came across this googling for possible ways to add expect to putty as 
a library so that sessions could be automated in almost any wacky way 
you might need.

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bkw