[Adding the rsync maintainer to the Cc in case he wants to add something.]
On 5/27/2020 3:34 PM, Bill Stewart wrote:
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 1:20 PM Andrey Repin wrote:
When I run rsync --version, I see this:
rsync version 3.2.0dev protocol version 31
However the Cygwin Setup program says that my rsync is current and is
listed as this version:
3.1.3+20200429+gitf7746d0-1
rsync.samba.org says the current version is 3.1.3.
So...what's actually the latest? What's the difference between these?
Run `which rsync` to see which one is responding to you.
3.2-dev is likely a snapshot from ongoing development branch.
`which rsync` outputs
/usr/bin/rsync
as expected.
What I am saying is that the Setup program says the installed version
is 3.1.3+20200429+gitf7746d0-1.
The version number shown by setup indicates that the maintainer built the
package from a snapshot of the upstream git repository rather than from a stable
release. The maintainer chose this version number, presumably to indicate that
the snapshot was made on 2020-04-29 after git commit f7746d0.
For that installed version, `rsync --version` says the version is 3.2.0dev
That version number is determined by the upstream rsync developers, and it
indicates that the build is based on a snapshot of the development branch for a
future 3.2.0 release. (This is what Andrey was saying.)
The latest stable release, 3.1.3, is two years old. I'm sure Jari had good
reasons for wanting to make a more recent version available.
Ken
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