Hi Ralf and everyone, I received a suggestion to mention gnupload in the GNU maintainers manual, since it's the easiest way (that I know of, anyway) to upload files to ftp.gnu.org and alpha.gnu.org.
However, there is one issue I felt should be mentioned to do so: the dependency on ncftpput. Personally, I don't have ncftp installed on all the myriad machines I upload from, and I don't really want to depend on it, either. So (a long time) I wrote a shell script that uses plain-old-ftp (BSD-based, like the one in GNU inetutils) to do the same job with the same interface, which I simply name ncftpput in my PATH. It's attached. So, I guess my questions are: 1) do you have any interest in eliminating the dependency on ncftpput? 2) do you have any interest in including this ncftpput-replacement somewhere, somehow? Probably most maintainers do have ncftpput; in any case, it's hardly critical. I suppose I could put the script in, say, the gnustandards repository, or maybe gnulib, and people who want it could get it. I am not exactly sure of the best way to proceed. (I see I used a bash-ism in my script, and I did not attempt to make perfectly robust, etc., but that could all be solved if there is a need.) Thoughts, reactions? Thanks, k
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