I did a fast port for D7, see http://drupal.org/node/336743 It needs some more love in code and UI, but I think we have enough people (including me) available to help with this. K Karoly Negyesi wrote:
As far as I can tell, it needs to have your server be publicly accessible, with an ftp server running,
TRUE.
or with special libraries compiled into PHP
TRUE
to even work in a basic setup.
FALSE: We disagree on the definiton of "basic setup".
This means that the module just won't work for the large majority of the install base.
FALSE: The majority of our install base are on shared hosters which run public accessible FTP servers, thank you.
It can also not be deployed on a local test environment,
TRUE (unless you start an ftpd or pecl install ssh2)
as that tends to be behind a firewall with no public IP.
FALSE. (your browser is behind that too)
As it stands, I don't believe it's a good candidate for core.
FALSE.
(although I am impressed at how secure they have been able to make it)
TRUE.
Regards
NL