[Development] Qftp removal

[David Boosalis]

I've been using it for a year now, have had no problems on Linux and
Windows.  I use it to check for application upgrade.  Is there a
recommended way to do FTP transfers when QFtp is gone.  Any chance of QFtp
getting into Qt Commercial ?



On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com
> wrote:

> 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
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