On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 01:24:32AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 13:49:44 +1100, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >>
> >> The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is
> >> implemented in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason
> >> that I en
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 13:49:44 +1100, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>
>> The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is
>> implemented in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason
>> that I encountered it in the first place).
> How is that an advantage of use?
Matthew Palmer wrote:
Sounds like you need to expand your repertoire a bit.
Possibly so, but unfortunately my time is a finite. There are far too
many languages (even in debian main) for me to learn them all.
Can you imagine a world in which your argument was taken at face value?
There w
Matthew Palmer wrote:
The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is implemented
in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason that I encountered
it in the first place).
How is that an advantage of use?
We're talking about free software. Modifying it to fit your needs is
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 07:17:45PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> Matthew Palmer wrote:
>
> >>The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is implemented
> >>in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason that I encountered
> >>it in the first place).
> >
> >
> >How is that an
> > Well, if one had a small system and desired not to install ruby, it
> > would still be possible to obtain pdumpfs' functionality. Of course
> > that could be called an installation issue rather than a usability
> > issue.
>
> 3314kB, including pdumpfs itself. I'll donate a 32MB USB key to sto
> > In what ways is this package different to, say, dirvish, which I use
> > in a manner which is, AFAICS, identical to the way this package
> > operates?
>
> Or storebackup?
>
> (Actually, storebackup's one-line description doesn't really hint at
> this functionality. But I'm using it to create
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 01:49:44PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is implemented
> > in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason that I encountered
> > it in the first place).
> How is that an advantage of use?
One may want to use
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 09:31:32AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 03:04:15PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote:
> > The poor man's daily snapshot, glastree builds live backup trees, with
> > branches for each day. Users directly browse the past to recover older
> > documents or retri
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004, Charles Fry wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:59:09PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote:
> > > > In what ways is this package different to, say, dirvish, which I use
> > > > in a manner which is, AFAICS, identical to the way this package
> > > > operates?
> > >
> > > glastree prov
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:30:05PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote:
> > > > Is there any benefit to using glastree over dirvish or pdumpfs?
> > >
> > > The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is implemented
> > > in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason that I encountered
>
Scripsit Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Meanwhile, what's
> the total installed space for glastree if you're not a Perl lover?
Perl-base is 'Proirity: required' and 'Essential: yes'. It doesn't
even have to be depended on.
--
Henning Makholm "It will be useful
> > > Is there any benefit to using glastree over dirvish or pdumpfs?
> >
> > The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is implemented
> > in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason that I encountered
> > it in the first place).
>
> How is that an advantage of use?
Well
Scripsit Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Is there any benefit to using glastree over dirvish or pdumpfs?
> The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is implemented
> in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason that I encountered
> it in the first place).
How would th
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 07:58:17PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:59:09PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote:
> > > > In what ways is this package different to, say, dirvish, which I use
> > > > in a manner which is, AFAICS, identical to the way this package
> > > > operates?
> > >
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:59:09PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote:
> > > In what ways is this package different to, say, dirvish, which I use
> > > in a manner which is, AFAICS, identical to the way this package
> > > operates?
> >
> > glastree provides a subset of the functionality of dirvish. It is
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:59:09PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote:
> > In what ways is this package different to, say, dirvish, which I use
> > in a manner which is, AFAICS, identical to the way this package
> > operates?
>
> glastree provides a subset of the functionality of dirvish. It is
> actually m
> In what ways is this package different to, say, dirvish, which I use
> in a manner which is, AFAICS, identical to the way this package
> operates?
glastree provides a subset of the functionality of dirvish. It is
actually most closely related pdumpfs. Like pdumpfs, glastree works
locally and not
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 03:04:15PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote:
> The poor man's daily snapshot, glastree builds live backup trees, with
> branches for each day. Users directly browse the past to recover older
> documents or retrieve lost files. Hard links serve to compress out
> unchanged files, whil
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: glastree
Version : 1.03
Upstream Author : Jeremy Wohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://igmus.org/code/
* License : public domain
Description : builds live backup trees, with branches for each day
The poor
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