Driver station coding and other

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Originally Posted by Thomas Clark

The robot itself runs an unprotected FTP server. I really fear someone exploiting this, and I've already demonstrated that this is possible (no, I won't post the code). IMHO, they should either use a password, or, better yet, use encrypted SSH file transfer (SFTP).

I noticed this while playing with some file system stuff last year for some recording code and it didn't occur to me to bring it up during the beta or to use it for evil. Although shouldn't the encrypted bridge prevent such things from happening?

Originally Posted by Thomas Clark

The compiler doesn't support anything besides Windows, and some of us prefer Linux. The IDE I don't care about (I never use IDEs, just makefiles), but FIRST is limiting users' experiences by limiting who can program and on what operating system. IMHO, they should provide a build of the WPI library and compiler for Linux.

If I remember correctly, it has been this way (i.e. Windows "only") for a while and the new technology is just allowing the beginning the future of what can be done. It's just a matter of time.

Originally Posted by Thomas Clark

Another this is the library. Although it's obvious that tremendous effort was put into it, I can tell that it was rushed to be finished before the build season started. All I can say is that I hope it's better next year.

Suggestions? Point out what's wrong to the developers of the libraries, otherwise it won't get fixed. Very hard to fix what isn't noticeably wrong.

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