Deprecating ftpd in the FreeBSD base system?

[Marcelo Araujo]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 11:55 PM Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
wrote:

> In message <451538DE-9427-4584-987B-8E4AA26C2981 at freebsd.org>, Daniel
> Eischen w
> rites:
> >
> >
> > > On Sep 17, 2020, at 11:20 AM, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Re: removing HTTP client please no!!! The current drive to "outlaw"
> HTTP
> > > coming from companies who see all world via web browser. Totally
> ignoring
> > > the fact that HTTP != HTTPS in particular in cases where reliability
> and
> > > lower complexity of the system takes precedence over on-the-wire
> protocol
> > > security. For example, many internal APIs of AWS EC2 are HTTP.
> >
> > Agree.  And remember the mantra: tools, not policy.
>
> Since there are so many I'll pick this email to reply to.
>
> libfetch should be designed to call plugins. An https plugin, http plugin,
> ftp plugin, sftp plugin, and so on. New protocols are added as needed,
> preferably to ports before they are mainstream. Old protocols are removed
> and moved to ports. People who still need to use old protocols can install
> the port which plugs into libfetch. When a protocol becomes stale it's
> forgotten, no longer maintained and simply disappears into the ether.
>

Thinking in this way, very soon we need to remove TCP, UDP, IP and the list
growing, they are all stale.



> Given that pkgbase will become a reality at some point the line between
> base and ports will blur. I expect at some point some of what we see in
> base to simply become ports. As a developer of both base and ports, ports
> are much easier to maintain than importing into base.
>
> That's my vision.
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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