22 janv. 2022 08:47:57 Chris <portmas...@bsdforge.com>:
> On 2022-01-21 23:31, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >> 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. >>> > Thanks for taking the time to reply. > >> ssh which is supported is as cheap if not cheaper. > Technically that's incorrect. But as I see you've also rejected 2 other > requests. It's > clear that this topic is not actually up for debate. So I'll say no more on > the subject. >> Bapt > -- Chris It is up for debate, I have been told we need something in base to which I replied ssh is in base, so fill that requirement, you have said it is cheap no explaining what you call cheap, I say ssh is cheap as well as in not more complicated to configure, provide a path and here we are. You asked the reason for the removal I explained them, if ftp was free of cost I won t care about keeping it. So up to now noone gave an detailed argument in favour of ftp, which ssh or other transport cannot provide as well. Bapt
