The objective is to have a single ant build configuration file for Windows NT/2000 and UNIX platforms;
Currently files are sourced from both the version control system (SourceSafe) and an SMB share on a public server. The reason for the share is that for this project, there are a large number of binaries, some of which are very big and aren't expected to change often (if at all) - the sacrifice of no version control on these files is deemed acceptable in comparison to clogging up the version control system with binaries (and making the build process so slow that it is unusable).
At the moment, rsync is the tool used to synchronise files from the share - this works very well and is extremely fast under UNIX. It is not currently supported under Windows since rsync is a UNIX utility. Since the Windows builds have to happen on developer machines (Win2000) I don't want to have to make things any more complicated than they need to be under Windows and for this reason am trying to avoid the need to install cygwin dll's just so that developers can run a version of rsync under Windows. Another reason for not wanting to use rsync under Windows is that it isn't really supported (I'll have to compile my own version under Cygwin and then maintain this with later releases).
My question is: Is there a 'clean' cross-platform solution (obviously preferably based in Java) for syncing files across file systems? Given that there is already built-in support for certain version control systems in ant I would imagine that there is a need for this over the rather crude ftp/http get (which does not support deltas).
--Eric
Eric Smith
Systems Architect
DiscoveryWorld, Discovery Health
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