Re: [Expectperl-discuss] 'Ftp' acts different in Cygwin and Linux

[Austin S. <te...@of...>]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 09:00:17AM -0600, Blackstone, J. David wrote:
>   I would never automate an FTP session by wrapping Expect/Expect.pm around
> an FTP client.  Use Net::FTP.  I know the Expect book talks about automating
> an FTP session, but it's a bad idea when you have a module to do it for you
> (and when you can't depend on your FTP clients to behave the same way on
> different systems).
> 

	While I agree with the idea of using it on a poorly behaved platform,
I disagree with using Net::* for everything, in all cases. I write a lot
of expect code that doesn't need to be ultra-portable and I generally don't
feel like trying to learn/use/debug each and every module's API.
As they say, TMTOWTDI. Different things may be appropriate in different
situations. As long as a programmer is aware of other methods, let them
decide for themselves.

	Austin