status of forked zlibs in rsync and zsync

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Wed Sep 16 15:39:57 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 08:10 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> This is a logical leap.  rsync has forked zlib but they are only using
> the fork internally.  2 and 3 get that fork out in the open so that
> more
> than one program can use it.  2 and 3 are solutions when solution 1
> fails.  Since solution 1 has failed, 2 and 3 become *relevant*, not
> moot.

I beg your pardon, but how are rsync and zsync supposed to use upstream
zlib (points 2,3) if the upstream lib does not have the features they
need ???

Simo.

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