bug#19594: url-ftp: should not be aliased to url-file; url-file: use Tramp

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

>>     My suggestion would be that the FTP-specific code be split off
>>     url-file.el into url-ftp.el (so that ftp: URIs would exclusively
>>     denote resources available via FTP), /and/ new Tramp interface
>>     (hopefully trivial) be coded into url-file.el.
>
> If the long-term plan now is to phase out the entire url library,
> perhaps we should close this as wontfix?

I think that makes sense -- the url.el ftp: behaviour is long-standing,
and changing it this radically may break stuff.  (And the new URL
interface will handle ftp: in a manner that's more akin to what's
described here.)

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