On May 7, 2012, at 12:58 PM, Marcus Denker wrote: > > On May 7, 2012, at 12:37 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > >> >> On 07 May 2012, at 11:48, Camillo Bruni wrote: >> >>> how much do we still need ServerDirectory in 2.0? >>> Isn't that almost fully included by Zn? >>> >>> ServerDirectory features a lot of references to FileDirectory hence I would >>> like to nuke it :D >> >> I also don't really understand why ServerDirectory exists. >> MCConfigurationBrowser seems to use it. >> >> If ServerDirectory does something that cannot be done with ZnClient, I am >> all ears. >> > > ServerDirectory needs to be removed. It was just a mapping of names to > servesr so that > one could use symbolic names for pre-defined servers. Quite strange. > The last client of ServerDirectory is FtpUrl... and the method there looks very hackish and can't even be compiled. The code in ServerDirectory is very bad... there is no value in that.
As it is perfectly possible to just use FTPClient directly (see Monticello), I think we should just remove ServerDirectory and FtpUrl FtpUrl is not really useful anyway... ftp is using non-encrypted passwords, so everyone using it is doing somethign wrong anyway. A good FTP client libeary in the spirit of Zinc would be nice of course in the long run. http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=3639 Anyone against? -- Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de
