[gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ftp?

[Kai Krakow]

Am Sun, 14 May 2017 02:18:56 +0100
schrieb lee <lee@××××××××.de>:

> Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@×××××.com> writes:
>
> > Am Sat, 29 Apr 2017 20:02:57 +0100
> > schrieb lee <lee@××××××××.de>:
> >
> >> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes:
> >>
>  [...]
>  [...]
>  [...]
> >>
> >> The intended users are incompetent, hence it is too difficult to
> >> use ...
> >
> > If you incompetent users are using Windows: Have you ever tried
> > entering ftp://user@××××××××.tld in the explorer directory input
> > bar?
>
> I tried at work and it said something like that the service cannot be
> accessed.
>
>
> > [...]
> > Debian is not the king to rule the internet. You shouldn't care when
> > they shut down their FTP services. It doesn't matter to the rest of
> > the world using the internet.
>
> Who can say what their influence actually is?  Imagine Debian going
> away, and all the distributions depending on them as well because they
> loose their packet sources, then what remains?  It is already rather
> difficult to find a usable distribution, and what might the effect on
> upstream sources be.

The difference is: They only shut down a service. They are not
vanishing from the internet. You cannot conclude from that, they are:

(a) shutting down all their service
(b) ftp is deprecated and nobody should use it any longer

And I didn't write that you shouldn't care if Debian vanishes. I only
said it shouldn't mean anything to you if they shut down their FTP
services for probably good reasons. It's not the end of life, the
universe, and everything. And you can keep your towel.

What I wanted to say: Debian is not that important that everyone will
shut down FTP now and kill FTP support from client software. That
simply won't happen. That is not what it means when Debian is shutting
down a service.


-- 
Regards,
Kai

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