On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Dave Cohen <<a href="mailto:drupal@dave-cohen.com">drupal@dave-cohen.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm all in favor of improving Drupal's core file handling. But also when<br>
discussions like this come up, I mention <a href="http://drupal.org/project/upapi" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/project/upapi</a><br>
(Upload API contrib module). If I could rally the troops around this module<br>
it could become a great thing.<br>
<br>
One thing this module does is invoke hooks to let other modules know when new<br>
files have been uploaded and act on them. I can imagine an add-on that<br>
detects FTPed files, and inserts them into the upapi system (which currently<br>
only supports uploads via forms)</blockquote><div><br>Dave, why rally troops around a contrib module instead of a core patch? The UpAPI module is awesome work and implements some really cool stuff, but is irrelevant to the discussion of Drupal FTP and it's merit.<br>
<br>I think having ftp client implementations aren't really the greatest thing, especially when PHP's native stream wrappers include FTP and SFTP/SSH. There is a patch floating around for stream wrapper support in core <a href="http://drupal.org/node/227232">http://drupal.org/node/227232</a> which would deprecate most of these types of file clients.<br>
<br>I think modules like drupal_ftp and media_mover are excellent use cases for stream wrapper support in core. <br><br>If it were me I'd list it as officially abandoned if you don't need it and let people know it's looking for a maintainer if anyone requires it.<br>
<br><br>.darrel.<br></div></div>