On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Dave Cohen <drupal@dave-cohen.com> wrote:

I'm all in favor of improving Drupal's core file handling.  But also when
discussions like this come up, I mention http://drupal.org/project/upapi
(Upload API contrib module).  If I could rally the troops around this module
it could become a great thing.

One thing this module does is invoke hooks to let other modules know when new
files have been uploaded and act on them.  I can imagine an add-on that
detects FTPed files, and inserts them into the upapi system (which currently
only supports uploads via forms)

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.

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 http://drupal.org/node/227232 which would deprecate most of these types of file clients.

I think modules like drupal_ftp and media_mover are excellent use cases for stream wrapper support in core.

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.


.darrel.