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RFM - Swish #192

Open brianmego opened 7 years ago

brianmego commented 7 years ago

Do not do enough Windows development to justify being the main maintainer of this package any longer.

Source for the existing package exists here: https://github.com/brianmego/Chocolatey

chtof commented 5 years ago

Swish hasn't been updated by the author since June 2013 (http://www.swish-sftp.org). It can be installed under Windows 10 but it displays an error message "Unable to exchange encryption keys: LIBSSH2_ERROR_KEX_FAILURE. I think it's because the libssh2.dll file installed by Swish is too old.

According https://sourceforge.net/projects/swish/, someonelse has also a problem to run Swish under Windows 10:

sean729 Posted 08/25/2018 I couldn't get swish v0.8.2 working on Windows 10 Home (64 bit), so instead went with the commercial/opensource product called WinFSP (Windows File System Proxy) from www.secfs.net/winfsp -- which also supports mapping as a drive for NFS and SSH. BTW, those that need documentation should use the wayback machine.

Maybe we should reject this request?

pauby commented 5 years ago

Does the issue only occur on Windows 10 or other operating systems that Chocolatey supports?

chtof commented 5 years ago

No idea. But, a lot of changes have been applied on the SSL protocol since 2013 (encryption, cyphers etc...). For me, it's a bad idea in term of security to provide a such unmaintened package. And no idea if it can runs on other windows versions.

Le sam. 20 avr. 2019 à 17:58, Paul Broadwith notifications@github.com a écrit :

Does the issue only occur on Windows 10 or other operating systems that Chocolatey supports?

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pauby commented 5 years ago

Chocolatey supports other operating systems. If it runs on them then there is no reason it should not be a package. I would expect the maintainer to identify that it won't run on Windows 10 or implement a workaround if there is one.

If there is no security issues reported then again there is no reason for it not to be a package.

Whether it's a good idea or bad to use an older / unmaintained library that has no reported issues is a user decision not a Chocolatey repository one.