[Development] Qftp removal

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Fri Dec 23 19:35:02 CET 2011


On Friday, 23 de December de 2011 17.27.37, Qt wrote:
> So why remove qftp if there is no complete replacement. I use it in a lot of
> software and it works fine

Because it's old, fragile and unmaintained code. It's really hard to fix bugs 
on it, so no one does.

Unlike other working code we marked as Done, this one is really fragile. If 
you look at it in a funny way, it will crash. We really don't want people to 
use it because they'll run into trouble.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
     Intel Sweden AB - Registration Number: 556189-6027
     Knarrarnäsgatan 15, 164 40 Kista, Stockholm, Sweden
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