Re: [tor-talk] torsocks is broken and unmaintained

[grarpamp <grarpamp@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I'd like to see more discussion from more people here first, and see
> whether somebody steps up to say, "Yeah, I can maintain that" here, or
> whether somebody else who knows more than me about the issues has something
> to say.  Otherwise I don't know whether to write a "looking for maintainer"
> post, a "who wants to fork" post, a "don't use Torsocks, use XYZZY" post,
> or what.

I've been using torsocks for years. Some comments:
- The formal name is 'torsocks', everything else is an alias
that should not exist.
- It's a silly name because it is Tor agnostic, call it 'ld2socks'.
- It has had multiple authors.
- All authors are effectively dead.
- It needs some work.
- It needs a home for such work.
- It is not necessary given TransPort and DNSPort.
- But it's awfully handy. Especially [!] with mail apps such
as fetchmail, msmtp... ssh... any sort of Unix command
line thing.
- Handy enough for torproject to host it? I don't know. Without
an active coding maintainer it would be just a pile of tickets.

I'll add that I don't think it works with FTP anymore either.
And that it's awfully handy (again, hint).
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