On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 08:55 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > At present we are > > still in the contradictory and unsatisfactory position of > shipping rsync > > with an internal forked zlib but refusing to accept zsync > as a package > > because it does exactly the same thing. > > I hope this would not mean that rsync would be discontinued > in favour of zsync. > > The zsync website states: > > "[W]here rsync is designed for synchronising data from one > computer to another..., zsync is designed for file > distribution, with one file on a server to be distributed to > thousands of downloaders." > > I use rsync every day for exactly its intended purpose, but I > have NO use of the latter function. No, that's not the idea at all. As you say, it wouldn't make any sense. zsync isn't a replacement for rsync. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
