[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
bug#56518: Drop rsh/rlogin/remsh from Ange FTP
|
From: |
Robert Pluim |
|
Subject: |
bug#56518: Drop rsh/rlogin/remsh from Ange FTP |
|
Date: |
Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:09:20 +0200 |
>>>>> On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 11:53:58 +0200, Michael Albinus
>>>>> <michael.albinus@gmx.de> said:
Michael> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>> (I note that Firefox and Chrome dropped FTP support in 2021.
>>> And the FSF has sunset their FTP servers.)
>>
>> Sic transit gloria mundi!
Michael> Yep. But we're Emacs; it will take some further decades before we
Michael> obsolete the whole ange-ftp.el package. Not before major Linux
distros
Michael> ban the ftp packages from their repos.
Telnet is already hard to obtain in many distributions, ftp canʼt be
far behind (although thereʼs always curl 🙂)
Robert
--