On 27 November 2010 22:50, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> I've gone through Jira and tried to make fixes where it looked like they 
> would require changes that could impact binary compatibility.

Binary compatibility with what?

> There are many bugs related to the FTP variants and after taking several 
> passes I've decided to hold off for the time being. Most of the code either 
> isn't thread safe or implements concurrency in a manner that is difficult for 
> me to understand what it is trying to do. FtpFileObject synchronizes on the 
> file system which creates a huge bottleneck and without understanding how 
> commons net works it isn't clear to me why this is being done the way it is. 
> It almost feels like someone just tried to make it thread safe by brute 
> force. OTOH, SftpFileObject doesn't synchronize on anything which looks 
> problematic to me. But I have no familiarity with jsch so I suppose I could 
> not be understanding something.
>
> However, I don't believe addressing these issues will impact binary 
> compatibility so at this point I think I'm ready to try again to release 2.0.
>
> WDYT?
>
> Ralph
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