status of forked zlibs in rsync and zsync
Toshio Kuratomi
a.badger at gmail.com
Thu Oct 1 16:43:59 UTC 2009
On 10/01/2009 09:42 AM, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> 2009/10/1 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com>:
>> A) You're a coder and want to get your hands dirty with the rsync
>> protocol. Check out how librsync manages to use the system zlib and if
>> possible to do this compatibly, apply it to zsync and rsync, possible as
>> a build time option. Push the changes upstream if possible. If it's
>> impossible to apply the librsync strategy, having a good explanation of
>> what librsync is doing and why it can't work for rsync/zsync would be
>> great for crossing this option off the list.
>>
>
> librsync is not wire compatible with rsync, and also hasn't kept up to
> date with rsync protocol changes, so it may not be as straightforward
> to lift ideas from librsync.
>
Good to know. So we can cross this one off the list.
-Toshio
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