On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:53:17 -0800 jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:25:43PM -0500, Paul Green wrote: > > Sviatoslav Sviridov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > >It would be good if attached patch will be included in upstream. This > > >patch adds option --apt-support for rsync and with this option rsync > > >will print some additional information about file being transfered. No > > >program logic changed. Having this option in rsync we can have apt with > > >rsync method support. > > > > 1. What is apt? > > 2. The code changes look pretty simple and quite clean, but I didn't see > > any documentation changes. > > > > Are there any objections to my applying this patch if Sviatoslav supplies > > documentation changes, too? > > I object to the patch. > > As i told him in response to an offline request to me and Martin. > | I will not recommend this patch. The focus seems > | far too narrow and there is no coherent argument for > | inclusion. This just smacks of option proliferation. > > He provides no justification for the patch. It adds yet > another verbosity option for the purposes of reporting > progress. Oh, and why "apt" that smacks of name pollution. > > If we are going to add this sort of progress reporting let's > do so with a unified verbosity/progress report framework. > There are plenty of verbosity methods i and others would > like. Much better would be to have a --log-opts that > accepts a list of independent keywords and can be used > instead of -v with stacking. Looks very good, this would be better. Does anybody want to implement this? Can I help with this? And other thing I want to discuss: now rsync designed as standalone program, but it will be good if library with protocol implementation created, and build rsync program based on this library. -- Sviatoslav Sviridov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [ICQ#10845380] [Lintec Project] [MLUG] -- I do not believe that this generation of Americans is willing to resign itself to going to bed each night by the light of a Communist moon... - Lyndon B. Johnson -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
