Re: ftp by Sunil Nimmagadda

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost> writes:

> On 16.05.2019 19:39, Jay Patel wrote:
>> OpenBSD has recently added new ftp
>> :https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=155769388802752&w=2
>> 
>> Source here :
>> 
>> https://github.com/snimmagadda/http?files=1
>> 
>> Might be useful to NetBSD ftp
>
> NetBSD's ftp(1) is much more than ftp protocol. It should stay, but if
> there are patches against nbftp from Sunil or someone else, feel free to
> contribute.

Agreed.  Another point is that if some other software is useful, a good
first step is to add it to pkgsrc.   Then, if we ever get to the point
of seeing lots of mailinglist postings that say "Don't use foo in base;
install bar from pkgsrc instead", that's a clue.   This is pretty rare.