Re: [gftp] Status of development?

[Anthony DiSante <theant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's my $0.02 from another gFTP user:

> I feel that gftp holds a very important position not only as an ftp
> program, but on a much larger scale as well: as far as I could find,
> gftp is the only GPL ftp program of its kind still in development for
> gnome (yeah, I SUPPOSE you could use Kbear or Kasablanca, but that would
> also require installing 101 KDE libraries [no thanks]).

I agree 100% there.

> I'd like to start going through the gftp source and see if I can't patch
> some of the bugs I run into -in an effort to keep things rolling.
> Hopefully when you're ready to continue serious development, I'll be
> able to hand you a few patches and save you some time --effectively (I
> hope) speeding up the release date of the new version.

That would be great as far as I'm concerned.  I posted this half a year ago:

[gftp] unanswered bug reports and RFEs:
http://archives.seul.org/gftp/users/Mar-2005/msg00003.html

My biggest issues are the permissions bug that prevents you from reading 
files unless you have write-access to them, and the fact that gFTP transfers 
much slower than other programs (the scp command, etc), over the exact same 
connection.  (These both have been reported multiple times.)

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Anthony DiSante
Encodable Industries
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