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

On 2022-01-24 10:08, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> 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 ;)
Uh, Oh. ;-)

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

+1 for tcp://

> 
> Best regards,
> Bapt
-- Chris

P.S. You must REALLY hate ftp(1) to have gone to all this trouble. ;-)