Steve Youngs <steve(a)sxemacs.org> writes:
* Raymond Wiker <rwiker(a)gmail.com> writes:
> I've got one suggestion if you're (still) collecting ideas for GSoC:
> The current package system uses efs, which uses ftp, via an external
> process. The interface to ftp has some fairly heavy assumptions on
> the actual version of ftp being used, and for some platforms, these
> assumptions do not hold.
Do you mean that EFS has some assumptions on the version of ftp being
used? EFS is customisable.
It has plenty of assumptions. Customization is too complicated for many
users. The problem is that, while the FTP protocol is standardized, the
user interface of ftp clients isn't.
--
Regards,
Mike
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