[Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X (original) (raw)

Giampaolo Rodolà g.rodola at gmail.com
Fri Jun 18 00:40:16 CEST 2010

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 http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib http://code.google.com/p/psutil

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