Re: Fwd: Source and Binary for FtpServer

Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:

>
> -moved from users-
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> Rana Bhattacharyya wrote, On 17/03/2003 6.09:
>
>> I don't do regular checkins because nobody is really
>> interested about it - I think. 
>
>
> Hmmm, and how do you think other can get interested if they don't 
> understand what's going on?
>
>> I don't get any
>> feedbacks from the group. Anyway, the CVS version is
>> quite stable. Surely there are many things to be done.
>> Software development is a never ending process.
>> About release, I don't know the release procedure in
>> Apache. So I could not do it.
>> If you guys feel that incubator is the right place,
>> please do it. And yes, please then give me the CVS
>> write permission for that module.
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>
> That would be certain.
>
> So, given the above, what do Avaloners think?
> I'd think that a move to incubator could be right.


The FTP server has a strong relationship (depedencies) with the 
Cornerstone suite.

  * ThreadManager
  * ConnectionManager
  * SocketManager
  * RepositoryManager

 From these - the FTP server defines a filke IP restrictor block and a 
FtpServer block.
The implementation is also tied to the Phoenix BlockContext - which 
limits portability to some extent.  I havn't checked as to real 
dependency here but just an initial look indicated that BlockContext is 
being passed around across a number of classes.  My assumption is that 
the FTP server needs a directory reference in which case the removal of 
the Phoenix dependency could be eliminated.  Rana - do you know off-hand 
if there are any other Phoenix BlockContext references asside from the 
working directory?

Cheers, Steve.

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