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

[Chris]

On 2022-01-20 06:25, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:

Hello everyone,

We plan to remove the support for fetching packages over ftp for the next
releases of pkg (probably 1.18)

Must be a stupid question. But I'll ask anyway; Why the effort to start removing transports?

if you have a strong reason to use ftp which

please do share.

cannot be fixed by switching to any other supported protocols like ssh or http,

Local repos.
ftp(1) is cheap. Other transports are (usually) more expensive.

Best regards,
Bapt

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