[openbeosnetteam] Re: ftp/wget/telnet/...

André Braga wrote: 
Now my 0.02: please leave telnet, the user-side application, on the
main distro. It still is useful to debug text-based protocols like
HTTP, and there's still plenty of people using telnet for remote login
purposes (as scary as it may seem) on local networks...

We will keep those client tools. I was just complaining about the respective daemons.

I'd also like to see telnetd, the daemon, being kept. It has its uses
too, oddly enough.

Here, I have to disagree. :)
* Haiku is not a server OS
* only really useful protocols should be supported (e.g.: file sharing)
* if you know how to setup a server you will not have a big problem with downloading the required software from BeBits
* if you don't know how to setup a server you will not be able to setup a telnet (or whatever) daemon and you will probably never want to do it
* "it has its uses" is not enough to justify adding more software and features
* for the most important protocols we need easy to use (GUI) alternatives that are shipped with the official distro

Bye,
Waldemar


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