Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:08:55 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Chris <portmaster@bsdforge.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] Deprecation of the ftp support in pkg Message-ID: <20220124180855.ts7hctbh47xmspxk@aniel.nours.eu> In-Reply-To: <dbf7fd4428d7baf4afd6251e39f2bc47@bsdforge.com> References: <ffb8e8ea3724745fe8d67529f51ef43b@FreeBSD.org> <dbf7fd4428d7baf4afd6251e39f2bc47@bsdforge.com>
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On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 09:29:45AM -0800, Chris wrote: > 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. > > Looking at base we already have a lot of contrib and since we need to > > adapt each > > software project to our build framework a lot tends to get dated quickly and > > 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, > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thttpd . > > > > If anything, something like https://github.com/emikulic/darkhttpd or > > similar which > > would be very easy to maintain and is active > > 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 > appealing idea. :-) The proposal is now in anyway ;) I am just struggling on the name of the scheme: tcp:// or pkg+tcp:// (with a rename of ssh into pkg+ssh:// :D) Best regards, Bapt
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