bug#19594: url-ftp: should not be aliased to url-file; url-file: use Tramp

[Stefan Kangas]

tags 19594 + wontfix
close 19594
quit

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
> Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
>
> >>     My suggestion would be that the FTP-specific code be split off
> >>     url-file.el into url-ftp.el (so that ftp: URIs would exclusively
> >>     denote resources available via FTP), /and/ new Tramp interface
> >>     (hopefully trivial) be coded into url-file.el.
> >
> > If the long-term plan now is to phase out the entire url library,
> > perhaps we should close this as wontfix?
>
> I think that makes sense -- the url.el ftp: behaviour is long-standing,
> and changing it this radically may break stuff.  (And the new URL
> interface will handle ftp: in a manner that's more akin to what's
> described here.)

Thanks; I'm therefore closing this as wontfix now.  Note that the new
URL interface is planned to be part of Emacs 28, and will cover this
use case.

Thanks for the feature suggestion.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas