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Subject:	RE: setup HEAD changes
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Date:	Sun, 19 May 2002 14:20:29 +1000
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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com] 
> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 1:22 PM
> To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
> Cc: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: setup HEAD changes
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 01:13:10PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >Hi folk,
> >	I've just commited a few major changes that I thought should be 
> >mentioned.
> >
> >Firstly, I've added the core for rsync support. The librsync 
> library is 
> >not rsync compatible (yet). It is rproxy compatible should we add in 
> >the appropriate http logic. I probably won't do any more in either 
> >direction for now, but if someone where to make io_stream_rsync 
> >compilable and to interoperate at least at the uncompressed 
> level with 
> >rsync servers, that'd be cool.
> 
> I have reservations about adding rsync support.  This could 
> easily cause people to start using cygwin.com for everything 
> and ignoring mirrors since we allow anonymous rsync on 
> sources.redhat.com.

Chucks suggestion would work. Also, until we have *functional* rsync
support, it's really not a problem one way or another :}.

Rob

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