Re: Proposal: Remove rsync directory from setup

[Robert Collins <rbcollins at cygwin dot com>]

On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 03:01, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 22:19, Max Bowsher wrote:
> >> The current librsync does *not* implement the same protocol as the rsync
> >> program. Therefore I don't believe it can be useful to setup.
> >
> > Protocol, no. sliding checksums, yes, AFAIK.
> >
> >> I therefore propose to remove the rsync directory and io_stream_rsync*,
> >> and edit configure.in & Makefile.am accordingly.
> >
> > Why?
> 
> I assumed that the point of using librsync was to access rsync:: mirrors? If
> librsync can't do that, why keep it in the repository? Did you have another
> use for it planned?

It's the basis for building an rsync compatible protocol even though it
doesn't implement it itself. It's also the basis for rsync over http.

Rob
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