Is FTP going to be available by default on roboRIO

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Originally Posted by dellagd

Is there any reason you wouldn't just want to install your own FTP server on the roboRIO, or any other type of server for that matter? As far as I've seen there wouldn't be any restrictions on that.

That solution has a bootstrapping problem.

[rhetorical question] To access the server, it has to first be on the roboRIO, and it has to be running. How does one get the server on the roboRIO (and get it running) without SSH? [/end]

This question actually comes from my work creating the RobotPy installer. We *could* ask the user to install it on the roboRIO directly via SSH/SCP, but that makes the bar of installing RobotPy just a little bit higher, which is not desirable. In previous years, we had a two step installation process -- install python on your dev machine, run the install script which then automatically copies the right files to the cRio -- and I'd like very much for it to stay that way.

FWIW I've come to terms with the problem and I've devised a way that I can maintain my cross-platform compatibility without too much pain and suffering.