Removing gftp-text

[Nathan Robertson]

Warren Togami wrote:
> [root at ibmlaptop bin]# ls -l gftp*
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    278 Apr 14 21:34 gftp
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 301804 Apr 14 21:34 gftp-gtk
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 163828 Apr 14 21:34 gftp-text
> 
> I really want to just DELETE the gftp-text binary from the gftp package 
> in order to save some distribution package and filesystem space.  gftp 
> the GUI client is great, but gftp-text really sucks.  I can't imagine 
> that anybody prefers it over lftp or ncftp, and it has the usability of 
> "ftp".
> 
> Anybody see any good reason to keep gftp-text?  If I don't hear any good 
> reason within the next 18 hours it will be deleted.

I used to contribute to gftp (I spent some time working on a Mac OS X 
port), so I've studied the source to both in some detail. IMO, the text 
port is most useful for people to understand the architecture of 
gftp/lib/, as it removes all the multithreading aspects, and the GTK+ 
code, and makes the architecture far more clear. Maybe one day it'll 
become more than that, but lftp is far superior to gftp-text anyway (IMO).

Regards,
Nathan.