Hey, Shane Hathaway wrote: [snip]
Few developers care about XML-RPC these days. Most web developers are now working with REST, JSON, and other similar stuff. It's probably best to move all XML-RPC artifacts, including those in zope.publisher, to a single package, so that most developers can safely ignore the XML-RPC code.
+1 on this general direction.
IFTPDirectoryPublisher interface - not sure what's this and where is it used. Probably should be moved to zope.publisher.interfaces.ftp as well.
FTP is in the same boat as XML-RPC. Today, very few developers care to provide a dynamic FTP view of anything. WebDAV usually wins over FTP because adding SSL to WebDAV is easy. All FTP artifacts should move to a separate package.
+1 as well. I've recorded this information in the Zope Toolkit decisions document, just so we know where we're heading. Regards, Martijn