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author | Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> | 2002-02-25 18:28:37 +0000 |
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committer | Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> | 2002-02-25 18:28:37 +0000 |
commit | c6e27b608e6567a52c39c45b37c152cd70964ae9 (patch) | |
tree | a926aa6a5f566dfed1eb292eea7e4b88e1a3d78c | |
parent | f76584a57ca515ffe2a586aa05117b911f58ffea (diff) | |
download | rsync-c6e27b608e6567a52c39c45b37c152cd70964ae9.tar.gz |
More discussion about zlib.
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@@ -220,10 +220,30 @@ Empty directories can end up with many empty directories. We might avoid this by lazily creating such directories. + zlib - Perhaps don't use our own zlib. Will we actually be incompatible, - or just be slightly less efficient? + Perhaps don't use our own zlib. + + Advantages: + + - will automatically be up to date with bugfixes in zlib + + - can leave it out for small rsync on e.g. recovery disks + + - can use a shared library + + - avoids people breaking rsync by trying to do this themselves and + messing up + + Should we ship zlib for systems that don't have it, or require + people to install it separately? + + Apparently this will make us incompatible with versions of rsync + that use the patched version of rsync. Probably the simplest way to + do this is to just disable gzip (with a warning) when talking to old + versions. + logging |