Re: [HEADSUP] Deprecation of the ftp support in pkg

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 09:29:45AM -0800, Chris wrote:
> On 2022-01-24 03:00, Daniel Engberg wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just wanted to chime in on Alexander's (netchild@) mail and I fully agree.
> > Looking at base we already have a lot of contrib and since we need to
> > adapt each
> > software project to our build framework a lot tends to get dated quickly and
> > currently is so I don't see the benefit importing more at all. I would
> > also like
> > to highly advice against importing software which is considered dead
> > upstream,
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thttpd .
> > 
> > If anything, something like https://github.com/emikulic/darkhttpd or
> > similar which
> > would be very easy to maintain and is active
> 
> FWIW I'd also like to vote +1 on NO additions. I only vote in favor of ftp
> in this
> thread because we have a million year... OK 30 plus years of track record
> for it and
> it just works. Tho I must admit I find @bapt's recent tcp proposal an
> interesting and
> appealing idea. :-)

The proposal is now in anyway ;)

I am just struggling on the name of the scheme: tcp:// or pkg+tcp:// (with a rename
of ssh into pkg+ssh:// :D)

Best regards,
Bapt