-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 15:43 pm, Donovan Baarda wrote: > The comments about rsync never using libhsync/librsync are still true > for the foreseeable future. There are many things rsync includes that > are still missing from librsync, and the rsync implementation is very > tightly coupled, with many backwards compatibility issues. Even when > librsync reaches the point of being as good or better than rsync at > signature/delta/patch calculation, it would be a major task to "fit it > into" rsync. The downside to not having a library that is wire-compatible with rsync - --daemon is that it is damn difficult to write something that works as a VFS / kioslave type device. I had a hack at this, by wrapping the rsync executable, and it worked a bit, but it was way too fragile for any real use: http://www.cuneata.net/rsync-kio.html
Brad -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+5Hw9W6pHgIdAuOMRAr7xAJ4j8mRta8NziilLSc39hguut+8guQCeIJ5R +wZ/EDtAfZm4baxESxzBcIE= =HhLE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
