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Deprecating scp

Deprecating scp

Posted Nov 19, 2020 22:27 UTC (Thu) by rodgerd (guest, #58896)
In reply to: Deprecating scp by nix
Parent article: Deprecating scp

That's very disappointing. What was the rationale?

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Deprecating scp

Posted Nov 20, 2020 22:46 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

That it was "out of scope", that rsync's job was to copy files, and nonportable stuff doesn't count. (I guess they define what is "nonportable".)


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