Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Checking the lftp site, it seems that lftp is perhaps superior to ncftp > in some ways. > > I wonder though, is it possible to write a wrapper for lftp so that it > can emulate ncftp? I'm all for taking the latest improvements from the > open source community, but I still think it would be "nice" to minimize > the number of different implementations of what is really the same
Why? Or more precisely, what do you mean by "minimize the number of different implementations"? We can't go off and disband a bunch of FOSS projects that we don't like, and we can't stop people from getting/compiling/using them... All we can do is to make it harder for users to actually get binaries that run on OpenSolaris for these things. And every time we do /that/, we make it harder for users to take OpenSolaris seriously because it does not meet *their* needs. In my mind, EVERY SINGLE FOSS project out there[1] should be available in a repository, in ready-to-run binary form, waiting for someone who needs it to download on their OpenSolaris system. Now, if you were saying "only *some of them* should be considered candidates to become a core part of the OS, we might have a different conversation, but even then, if we had a full mondo-repository, why would it matter? -John ____ [1] that makes sense for Solaris - there are obviously quite a few that don't, such as MS-Windows editors, linux-kernel specific admin tools... :-)
