On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 08:54 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 5/15/2008 7:18 PM, Wayne Davison wrote: > > I don't particularly like the option, so my current inclination is to > > just keep it available in the patches directory for those that want it. > > Hi Wayne, > > I hope you don't mind a follow-up... > > You can do what you want, of course, but the problem with this is some > of the people who will want to use rsync to backup Windows boxes are - > or at least I am - shall we say, not programmers, and are not totally > comfortable patching code - and so will be at the mercy of someone > else's generosity for providing a patched version of the rsync binary. > > Matt was kind enough to do this for me a while back with 2.6.9, but I'd > rather not keep bothering him every time a new version is released.
To some degree I can see Wayne's rationale for not including --ignore-case in the main version of rsync. Officially, rsync targets only Unix-like systems, not Windows, though OS-specific compatibility changes/features are fair game for the maintained patches. I remember Wayne declined another Windows-specific change I proposed a while ago. But the main version of rsync isn't, and IMHO isn't meant to be, the be-all, end-all. Let's see what we can do about getting you the binaries. It would make sense for cwRsync to include --ignore-case if it doesn't already. (Tev?) For the Linux end, one of the things on my to-do list is to look into offering source and binaries for a number of different patched rsync versions, likely including an --ignore-case version, on my Web site. I could write a script to build RPMs for rsync plus each patch in isolation, or maybe there are some combinations of patches that people use often and I could package. Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html