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RE: setup HEAD changes
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 14:20:29 +1000
- Subject: RE: setup HEAD changes
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 1:22 PM
> To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Cc: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: setup HEAD changes
>
>
> On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 01:13:10PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >Hi folk,
> > I've just commited a few major changes that I thought should be
> >mentioned.
> >
> >Firstly, I've added the core for rsync support. The librsync
> library is
> >not rsync compatible (yet). It is rproxy compatible should we add in
> >the appropriate http logic. I probably won't do any more in either
> >direction for now, but if someone where to make io_stream_rsync
> >compilable and to interoperate at least at the uncompressed
> level with
> >rsync servers, that'd be cool.
>
> I have reservations about adding rsync support. This could
> easily cause people to start using cygwin.com for everything
> and ignoring mirrors since we allow anonymous rsync on
> sources.redhat.com.
Chucks suggestion would work. Also, until we have *functional* rsync
support, it's really not a problem one way or another :}.
Rob