[sles-beta] FTP

[Joe Doupnik]

     We are not in the business of worrying about any other Linux. We 
are trying to get work done, efficiently. The focus is on us the end 
user/customer, not Canonical's pipe dreams, not abstract "one ring to 
rule them all" because it seems like a clever thing to say. SUSE is not 
selling to Red Hat, Ubuntu and the like, but to us.
     The lftp discussion is not about defending lukemftp as such but 
about supporting a proper ftp client. The systemd dominance fiasco (my 
opinion) involves the same difficulty: choices ought to focus on the end 
results as seen by the paying customers.
     What would be wise and responsible is offer both lukemftp and lftp, 
initd and systemd, and let customers decide which to follow long term. 
The preceding can be done because SUSE has done it before. It can be a 
selling point.
     Thanks,
     Joe D.

On 08/03/2014 09:11, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, David Boyes wrote:
>
>> Sorry, that's not an improvement, that's a cost, and a pointless, needless variation vs any other Linux distribution.
> ???
>
> Since we use now the same ftp client as any other Linux Distribution (what,
> of course depends on the definition of "any other Linux Distribution"),
> I don't understand your complain. You should be happy that you can now
> use the same script like on "any other Linux Distribution".
>
> At least if you define Debian, Fedora and RHEL as "any other
> Linux Distribution".
> Between, other BSDs use lftp, too.
> To be honest, SLE11 was the only remaining distribution using
> lukemftp, I was not able to find any other. Ok, netbsd is still
> using it (as it is coming from netbsd) and of course since Debian
> contains everything, you still can find it there. But that was it.
>
>    Thorsten
>