ftplib is a set of routines that implement the FTP protocol. They allow applications to create and access remote files through function calls instead of needing to fork and exec an interactive ftp client program.
Um, are you going to submit an ebuild, or is this a request?
Created attachment 47848 [details] net-libs/ftplib-3.1-r1 ebuild kindly stolen from gentoo-de overlay :D (modified a little bit)
Created attachment 47849 [details, diff] net-libs/ftplib/files/ftplib-3.1-1.patch Needed patch
Hrm. Do you have any packages which rely on this library? If not, we probably won't add the library at this time. Best regards, Stu
this FTP library could help C developer to write new software. I found useful to have implemented all FTP commands in a simple library. I used ftplib for a simple application and ftplib works fine and it's very simple to use! I'm new here and I didn't think that is important (to enter in portage) have packages related. my submission was a request but I could try to write my first ebuild.
> Hrm. Do you have any packages which rely on this library? > If not, we probably won't add the library at this time. Actually the app-cdr/xbiso package would use it, but there's no ebuild for it so there's no USE flag and the configure script doesn't find it. FTP support in xbiso would actually be useful to me, so I'd vouch for ftplib.
> Hrm. Do you have any packages which rely on this library? > If not, we probably won't add the library at this time. Is there some hard-and-fast rule that a library will only be added into portage if its used by a package? That seems a bit draconian.
David, you say "draconian", but before you commit to that, please go through portage and see how many packages we have in there. then look at how many of those have a "metadata.xml" file associated with them. Subtract -- that is the number of completely unmaintained packages because stuff was added at the drop of a hat. Now, out of the ones that _do_ have a metadata.xml file grep through those which contain "bug-wranglers" as the maintainer. Bug-wranglers are, in fact, not package maintainers -- they are what their title implies -- people who wrangle bugs. In other words, add that to the number of unmaintained you already have. Then, kindly rethink "draconian".
Nothing depends on this, and according to [1] ftplib was last updated September 16, 2000. This bug hasn't been touched since 2005-04-18, so I'm closing it as WONTFIX. [1] http://nbpfaus.net/~pfau/ftplib/
