Re: removing ftp:// from mirrors lists

On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, William F. Maton Sotomayor wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Apr 2016, Peter Palfrader wrote:
>
>> talking to several mirror operators on IRC (including fewllow DSA
>> members), I get the impression that a lot of us would appreciate if we
>> could deprecate the FTP as a transport protocol.
>
> Maybe an impression, but not necessarily representative.

But it is just simply worse as a file transport protocol.

>> The latter is also used by the installer, AIUI.  -boot folks, can we
>> just go ahead and kill the *-ftp: entries from Mirrors.masterlist?
>> Do you have any objections or do you need some time before we do that?
>
> Well, if the installer actually made the effort to provide an FTP list to 
> select sites much like it does for the HTTP list, then the users wouldn't 
> have to manually type in a long URL for FTP - which discourages people from 
> using FTP.  So much for giving the users a fair shot at a choice between 
> protocols.

That's good, the more strongly FTP is discouraged, the better.

Please just go ahead and remove it, I don't think this discussion has any 
purpose any more.

/Mattias Wadenstein - for the ftp.acc.umu.se team