[Toybox] ftpget: Remove

[Eric Molitor]

I genuinely had trouble finding an FTP server to test until I remembered
those two. Regarding libxml2 it's poorly documented but you can pull source
from http://xmlsoft.org/sources/ *but* I believe most people these days
just pull the tag via GNOME git for the specific release they want.

- Eric

On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 4:51 PM enh <enh at google.com> wrote:

> i don't have much of an opinion here, but i was wondering about the
> usefulness of this in a world where all the major browsers have now removed
> ftp support... is anyone likely to still be using ftp by the time toybox
> hits 1.0?
>
> (interesting that gnu sends you to an https server suggesting you update
> any scripts before they remove ftp completely [without giving a specific
> deadline], but libxml2 is basically just broken with current browsers.)
>
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 7:34 AM Eric Molitor <emolitor at molitor.org> wrote:
>
>> While looking at adding ftp support back into wget I realised that the
>> ftpget toy is broken. When testing using the ftp.gnu.org or xmlsoft.org
>> ftp sites toybox ftpget makes incorrect assumptions about the FTP protocol
>> and fails. In theory this could be fixed but why? Unless someone objects
>> sending a PR to remove the toy.
>>
>> - Eric
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