Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-08-03 Thread Donovan Baarda
G'day, On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 20:26, Martin Pool wrote: [...] Wow... that only just reached me on 2 Aug... nearly a month in delivery. > > For the future I can see continued support of the exising rsync code. I > > would also like to see librsync adopt vcdiff as it's delta format, and > > get a

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-08-02 Thread Martin Pool
On 8 Jun 2003, Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > regarding librsync... It is still in sort-of-active development on > SourceForge by a variety of developers... a new release is waiting in > CVS for me to finally get around to releasing it, but I'm busy on a big > contract at the moment

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-13 Thread Martin Pool
On 12 Jun 2003, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mind you, that means making the server lightweight with the > client doing all the logic and a nearly stateless connection. > Much like my earlier post on this thread posited. I was wondering today if that would make it easier to gain confid

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-12 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 01:25:06PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On 12 Jun 2003, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Leave the communications protocol to the communications > > layer. You don't save anything by coding reordering and > > retransmission at the packet level; that is infrastruc

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-12 Thread Martin Pool
On 12 Jun 2003, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leave the communications protocol to the communications > layer. You don't save anything by coding reordering and > retransmission at the packet level; that is infrastructure. > > Connectionless is fine. Lightweight sessions is better. If

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-12 Thread Martin Pool
On 13 Jun 2003, Martin Pool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why run this _only_ over TCP? Obviously you don't want to re-invent TCP/IP > > error handling, but the protocol shouldn't rely on such a system. File > > transfer can potentially run connectionless. > > It sounds like you're talking abo

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-12 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 10:34:18AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On 12 Jun 2003, Brad Hards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why run this _only_ over TCP? Obviously you don't want to re-invent TCP/IP > > error handling, but the protocol shouldn't rely on such a system. File > > transfer can potential

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-12 Thread Martin Pool
On 12 Jun 2003, Brad Hards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:25 am, Martin Pool wrote: > > That could be a pretty nice thing.  We use little rsync shares on > > workstations here for sharing files, and I know some people do the > > same with FTP. > > > > What aside

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-12 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:25 am, Martin Pool wrote: > That could be a pretty nice thing.  We use little rsync shares on > workstations here for sharing files, and I know some people do the > same with FTP. > > What aside from SLP would make this more usef

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-11 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 16:13, Martin Pool wrote: > On 11 Jun 2003, Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 13:59, Martin Pool wrote: [...] > > > On 11 Jun 2003, Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I forget if I saw this in Tridge's thesis, but I definitely notic

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-10 Thread Martin Pool
On 11 Jun 2003, Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 13:59, Martin Pool wrote: > > On 11 Jun 2003, Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The vcdiff standard is available as RFC3284, and Josh is listed as one > > > of the authors. > > > > Yes, I've just

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-10 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 13:59, Martin Pool wrote: > On 11 Jun 2003, Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The vcdiff standard is available as RFC3284, and Josh is listed as one > > of the authors. > > Yes, I've just been reading that. > > I seem to remember that it was around as an Inte

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-10 Thread Martin Pool
On 11 Jun 2003, Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The vcdiff standard is available as RFC3284, and Josh is listed as one > of the authors. Yes, I've just been reading that. I seem to remember that it was around as an Internet-Draft when I started, but it didn't seem clear that it woul

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-10 Thread Martin Pool
On 10 Jun 2003, Brad Hards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yep. Also, I was playing with the idea of rsync with Service Location Protocol > to use as a replacement for the crappy practice of sharing data over floppy > disks. The rough concept was that each machine had a shared directory, which > y