The other thing that rsync does is it deletes files that are no longer on the server side. I'm sure that's very doable too, but it's an extra step to consider.
Regards, Curt. Norman Vine writes: > Christian Mayer writes: > > > > "Curtis L. Olson" wrote: > > > > > > Christian Mayer writes: > > > > > Except, as Curt has already pointed out, rsync is more than just a > > > > > file transfer protocol ... its functionality would need to be duplicated > > > > > in FG/SG/plib before http could be used. > > > > > > > > The missing functionality is the ability to figure out if the tile has > > > > changed IIRC. > > > > > > > > But that'n no problem - HTTP already supports that. IIRC it send's a > > > > status code of 302 if the reqested data didn't change... > > > > > > We could continue to work on an entire directory level to avoid this > > > problem, but the client side is still going to have to do all the work > > > of rsync. > > > > We can do it directory wise. > > we don't need rsync all we need is SMART ftp in a thread > > i.e in Python > > def download_if_newer(self, source, target, mode=''): > """ > Download a file only if it's newer than the target on the > local host or if the target file does not exist. > """ > source_timestamp = self.path.getmtime(source) > if os.path.exists(target): > target_timestamp = os.path.getmtime(target) > else: > # every timestamp is newer than this one > target_timestamp = 0.0 > if source_timestamp > target_timestamp: > self.download(source, target, mode) > > FWIW > I have started prototyping a Python version using these > http://c0re.jp/c0de/ftpparsemodule/ > http://www.ndh.net/home/sschwarzer/python/ftputil.html > > eventually I think a combination of > http://cr.yp.to/ftpparse.html > and PLIBs net library will be all we need to build this > > however in the long run I would like to see an xml-rpc > implemetation as this would be much more flexible > > Cheers > > Norman > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
