[Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

[Giampaolo Rodolà]

2010/6/17 Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com>:

> There's a related meta-issue having to do with antique protocols.

Can I know what meta-issue are you talking about exactly?

> FTP, for instance, was designed when the Internet had only 19 nodes connected
> together with custom-built refrigerator-sized routers.  A very early
> experiment in application protocols.  It does a few odd things that
> we've since learned to be inefficient/unwise/unnecessary.  Does it make
> sense that Python support every part of it?

Being FTP protocol still quite widespread I'd say it makes a lot of sense.
That aside, what parts of urllib/http* are penalized because of FTP support?


--- Giampaolo
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