> On 2013/11/23 14:39, sven falempin wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Another point of vue : > > Because curl is in base, what does ftp client add to the system ? > > ftp(1) is not without problems (bad ssl support, semi-broken proxy > support, difficult code) but it has one major advantage: the small > version used on ramdisks is quite small, something like 80k. > > cURL is not in base, but even if it was, it looks to be much too > big for the ramdisks.
As a note to anyone skilled... take the above issues as a challenge. If you can improve those problems in ftp(1), we'd love it. But it must remain a fairly small program.
