> Quoting L. Cranswick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > For this type of mirroring - you may also like to explore using
> > rsync (free open source) [...]
> >
> > This can be far more effective than using FTP or HTTP mirroring.
> > The algorithm is open source so there is no reason why it cannot be
> > added into WGET.
>
> Given there is a well-working implementation of rsync server and rsync
> client, does it make sense to add this functionality to wget?
>
> -- jan
Some sites allow retrieval of information via rsync so
this could make it a candidate algorithm to include
with WGET as a internet retrieval program (under this
criteria - even CVS could be added?)
I would not put it high on the list - but it could be useful
given the exclude/include parser in rsync is quite woeful -
but quite nifty in wget under many circumstances.
Rather than have WGET, Rsync and CVS - do it all in
WGET?
Lachlan.
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