[darcs-devel] [issue1459] Remove support for SSH_PORT, DARCS_SSH, DARCS_SCP, DARCS_SFTP

[Trent Buck]

Trent Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com> added the comment:

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 09:30:09AM +0300, Dan Pascu wrote:
>> Currently Darcs provides an application-specific way to set SSH
>> settings.  Does anyone actually use these?  If they do, why isn't
>> ssh_config(5) a viable and superior alternative?
>
> I guess they are useful if you use an alternate ssh implementation
> (like putty on windows) that doesn't have ssh_config.

Nod.  I had forgotten about Windows, and I couldn't remember if Unix
SSH clients like dropbear had an equivalent of ssh_config.

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