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

[Chris]

On 2022-01-24 03:00, Daniel Engberg wrote:

Hi,

I just wanted to chime in on Alexander's (netchild@) mail and I fully agree.

software project to our build framework a lot tends to get dated quickly and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thttpd .

Looking at base we already have a lot of contrib and since we need to adapt each currently is so I don't see the benefit importing more at all. I would also like to highly advice against importing software which is considered dead upstream, If anything, something like https://github.com/emikulic/darkhttpd or similar which

would be very easy to maintain and is active

appealing idea. :-)

FWIW I'd also like to vote +1 on NO additions. I only vote in favor of ftp in this thread because we have a million year... OK 30 plus years of track record for it and it just works. Tho I must admit I find @bapt's recent tcp proposal an interesting and

Best regards,
Daniel

-- Chris

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