Re: [Gnu-arch-users] sftp rename?

[Thomas Zander]

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On Thursday 25 December 2003 17:55, James Blackwell wrote:
> > I'm not so sure about that; bad habits are hard to shake and the 'fish'
> > protocol has a HUGE advantage; it comes with the standard KDE
> > distribution which means at least 50% of the users will have it on his
> > desktop.
>
> I don't believe this number. Though kde is popular, I believe that gnome
> is the default on the more common distributions and kde is presented as
> an alternative.

That is not relevant; even RedHat has konqueror installed by default which 
means that fish is present. All KDE based applications will be able to use 
this protocol.
Besides; at every (relevant) statistics round the two come out equal.  So your 
instinct is wrong.  (I can't find a URL at the moment, but since its not 
relevant which WM the user choses, I'll leave it at that).

> Thats not even counting the number of servers that don't 
> have either installed.

Which part of 'desktop' was unclear?
Its about name recognition; I doubt graphics software on the server has 
anything to do with that.

> Though its a fallacy of locality, I don't even have kde on my machines.
> On my servers I don't have X installed at all; on my laptops I have
> gnome because of gnucash. However, *all* of my machines have ssh and
> thusly sftp.
>
> That all said... what is fish exactly? Is it just sftp under a different
> name? 
It is.

> If so, why not just hack up pfs to accept fish:// silently as 
> sftp?

Isn't that exactly what I proposed?  My proposal is to rename it (see topic).

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Thomas Zander
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