Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-08-02 Thread Martin Pool
On 8 Jun 2003, Donovan Baarda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: regarding librsync... It is still in sort-of-active development on SourceForge by a variety of developers... a new release is waiting in CVS for me to finally get around to releasing it, but I'm busy on a big contract at the moment so

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-13 Thread Martin Pool
On 12 Jun 2003, jw schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mind you, that means making the server lightweight with the client doing all the logic and a nearly stateless connection. Much like my earlier post on this thread posited. I was wondering today if that would make it easier to gain confidence

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-12 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:25 am, Martin Pool wrote: That could be a pretty nice thing.  We use little rsync shares on workstations here for sharing files, and I know some people do the same with FTP. What aside from SLP would make this more useful?

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-12 Thread Martin Pool
On 12 Jun 2003, Brad Hards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:25 am, Martin Pool wrote: That could be a pretty nice thing.  We use little rsync shares on workstations here for sharing files, and I know some people do the same with FTP. What aside from SLP

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-12 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 10:34:18AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: On 12 Jun 2003, Brad Hards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why run this _only_ over TCP? Obviously you don't want to re-invent TCP/IP error handling, but the protocol shouldn't rely on such a system. File transfer can potentially run

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-12 Thread Martin Pool
On 12 Jun 2003, jw schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leave the communications protocol to the communications layer. You don't save anything by coding reordering and retransmission at the packet level; that is infrastructure. Connectionless is fine. Lightweight sessions is better. If you

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-12 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 01:25:06PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: On 12 Jun 2003, jw schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leave the communications protocol to the communications layer. You don't save anything by coding reordering and retransmission at the packet level; that is infrastructure.

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-11 Thread Martin Pool
On 11 Jun 2003, Donovan Baarda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 13:59, Martin Pool wrote: On 11 Jun 2003, Donovan Baarda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The vcdiff standard is available as RFC3284, and Josh is listed as one of the authors. Yes, I've just been reading that.

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-11 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 16:13, Martin Pool wrote: On 11 Jun 2003, Donovan Baarda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 13:59, Martin Pool wrote: [...] On 11 Jun 2003, Donovan Baarda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forget if I saw this in Tridge's thesis, but I definitely noticed that

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-10 Thread Martin Pool
On 10 Jun 2003, Brad Hards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep. Also, I was playing with the idea of rsync with Service Location Protocol to use as a replacement for the crappy practice of sharing data over floppy disks. The rough concept was that each machine had a shared directory, which you

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-10 Thread Martin Pool
On 11 Jun 2003, Donovan Baarda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The vcdiff standard is available as RFC3284, and Josh is listed as one of the authors. Yes, I've just been reading that. I seem to remember that it was around as an Internet-Draft when I started, but it didn't seem clear that it would

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

2003-06-10 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 13:59, Martin Pool wrote: On 11 Jun 2003, Donovan Baarda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The vcdiff standard is available as RFC3284, and Josh is listed as one of the authors. Yes, I've just been reading that. I seem to remember that it was around as an Internet-Draft