On 9 Jun 2003, Brad Hards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 15:43 pm, Donovan Baarda wrote: > > The comments about rsync never using libhsync/librsync are still true > > for the foreseeable future. There are many things rsync includes that > > are still missing from librsync, and the rsync implementation is very > > tightly coupled, with many backwards compatibility issues. Even when > > librsync reaches the point of being as good or better than rsync at > > signature/delta/patch calculation, it would be a major task to "fit it > > into" rsync.
> The downside to not having a library that is wire-compatible with rsync > - --daemon is that it is damn difficult to write something that works as a VFS > / kioslave type device. I had a hack at this, by wrapping the rsync > executable, and it worked a bit, but it was way too fragile for any real use: > http://www.cuneata.net/rsync-kio.html I guess the reason why you're interested in doing it is so that you can browse public rsync mirrors from Konqueror/whatever? Speaking only for myself, I don't think this is worth spending time on. It would be hard to write a wire-compatible library, and hard to refactor rsync into such a library. Not only might a new tool be written more easily without baggage, it might also (in a couple of years) persuade people running mirror sites to switch. I know many of them are unhappy with rsync at the moment: - large memory usage - no really good ways to restrict client usage - ... -- Martin -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
