22 janv. 2022 08:25:47 Chris <portmas...@bsdforge.com>:
> 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? Because maintaining ftp has a cost, number of line of code, user support etc. >> if you have a strong reason to use ftp which >> cannot be fixed by switching to any other supported protocols like ssh or >> http, >> please do share. > > Local repos. > ftp(1) is cheap. Other transports are (usually) more expensive. > ssh which is supported is as cheap if not cheaper. Bapt
