Problems with FTP transport in Bazaar-NG 0.8

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 03:48:27PM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote:
> Michal Krenek wrote:
> 
> > FTP transport is really important for me and I know also many other people
> > for which FTP transport is important. I think it would help Bazaar-NG
> > adoption to have these issues fixed in 0.8.1.
> 
> I am thankful that ftp is -not- support because it finally gave me the ammo
> needed to squash a clear text username/protocol on my network. 
> 
> I'm sure others will follow up, but my guess is no one really used ftp
> anymore because of the security ramifications and the pita of
> active/passive ftp on firewall configurations

For some situations though, there is no choice but ftp. We should
support those cases.

Wouter van Heyst