[Discuss] UberFTP?

[Mátyás Selmeci]

On 1/9/20 10:06 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> Hi Mátyás,
> 
> On 09.01.20 16:44, Mátyás Selmeci via discuss wrote:
>> Sorry for the thread necromancy but the UberFTP GitHub repo
>> (https://github.com/JasonAlt/UberFTP) has been explicitly
>> archived by the owner, which IMO gives us the license
>> to adopt it.  Are we willing to do that?
> 
> I'm with you, uberftp is a useful tool (e.g. allows direct access to GridFTP command channel) and should be conserved - also because I make use of it in gtransfer ([1]) :-).
> 
> [1]: http://gtransfer.org/
> 
> We should also contact Jason Alt that we would like to adopt it: In addition to the patches from the uberftp forks ([2]), maybe he also has some patches laying around that could be useful.
> 
> [2]: https://github.com/JasonAlt/UberFTP/network
> 
>> It would be good
>> to have some sort of upstream if EPEL/Fedora are going to
>> continue carrying it.
> 
> I hope they are.
> 
> Cheers,
> Frank
> 

OK, I'll contact Jason.

-Mat