Re: should rsync also be called ssync?

[Michael James]

>How does everybody (especially Martin and Tridge) feel about the idea of
>rsync defaulting to "-e ssh" if it is invoked under the name ssync?  Around
>here everybody is being told they should stop using r* commands and start
>using the s* equivalents so it seems a natural changeover.  If there is
>general agreement, I'm willing to implement it and change the default
>installation to install symlinks at bin/ssync and man/man1/ssync.1.

Dear Dave,

Why not just use ssh as the default if it is there?

At present the configure scripts look first for remsh and set HAVE_REMSH
Then the conditional definitions in rsync.h mean that RSYNC_RSH
 will get set to "remsh".

At configure time why not look for ssh,
 add HAVE_SSH and conditionally set RSYNC_RSH to "ssh"?

It worked for me.

michaelj