lftp-devel  

improving lftp project

Sorin Sbarnea
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:40:03 -0700

Hi,

First I want to say that I really appreciate LFTP as a very good
open-source product.

Because I has some issues using LFTP in my day-to-day work I have some
questions/suggestions.

#1 Why not using Google Code for hosting the project? They provide a
very good platform that contains a nice bug tracker, source control
and wiki. In addition they have a much better uptime than current
hosting - I do usually have problems accesing lftp.yar.ru like "The
connection was reset". Also, It does provide a very good email address
protection and spam protection via "moderate firs post" feature.

#2 Why not using Google Groups - it is much better than majordomo and
you can subscribe to the threads that you are interested in. Also the
web interface is maybe the most powerful.

#3 Where is located the source code repository? The download page does
not contain it and the one published on
https://www.ohloh.net/p/lftp/enlistments is no longer working (I was
working 9 month ago).

#4. Building latest version (3.7.14 or 3.7.15) on a *clean* CentOS 5
does create an executable that gives a segmentation fault even when
you call it with "lftp --help"

#5 Getting a portable win32 build is a real pain

#6 Why not having a bug tracker? (#1 would solve this)

#7 Why not using a wiki for the website, it's easier to update. For
example the link to binaries is not working for months -
ftp://lftp.yar.ru/lftp/binaries/

Thanks,
--
/sorin
http://nusunt.eu