Pushing to an FTP server not supporting APPE

[Matthieu Moy]

John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

> I do believe that if you switch your public branch to being a Weave
> format, things will work again. Though you lose all the advantages of
> knits. But if your server doesn't support APPE, then you've already lost
> them.

I'm just realizing that *I* would lose the advantages of knits, but
people accessing my archive with HTTP would still like to have knits.
Furthermore, knits have better chance to remain well supported in the
future.

Indeed, if FTP is slow, I can "push" as a background process, but
other people will want to "pull" and "merge" quickly.

Well, I'm not sure I'd use it, anyway, since I'd prefer finding an ISP
which gives me better performance using APPE, but it might be a
good-to-have (I had already patched the ftp transport to retry on
failure, which allowed using free.fr, one of the main ISP in France,
I'm disapointed that this is now useless ;-) ).

-- 
Matthieu