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bug#19594: url-ftp: should not be aliased to url-file; url-file: use Tra
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#19594: url-ftp: should not be aliased to url-file; url-file: use Tramp |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Oct 2019 19:09:13 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
>> My suggestion would be that the FTP-specific code be split off
>> url-file.el into url-ftp.el (so that ftp: URIs would exclusively
>> denote resources available via FTP), /and/ new Tramp interface
>> (hopefully trivial) be coded into url-file.el.
>
> If the long-term plan now is to phase out the entire url library,
> perhaps we should close this as wontfix?
I think that makes sense -- the url.el ftp: behaviour is long-standing,
and changing it this radically may break stuff. (And the new URL
interface will handle ftp: in a manner that's more akin to what's
described here.)
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