setup RFC: Ditch homegrown http/ftp code and use a library?
Max Bowsher
maxb@ukf.net
Sat Nov 13 10:20:00 GMT 2004
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> It would be nice if setup.exe supported the rsync protocol.
Lapo and Brian have already covered this, so I'll just summarise:
* No library available implementing the rsync protocol
(librsync implements a *different* protocol !!!)
* Package file scarcely ever change whilst keeping the same name.
Also, they are compressed, so a small change is likely to cause
the entire contents to change anyway. Therefore, rsync would not help.
> Would it help if setup.exe was broken down into two different programs?
> One for accessing the network and another for manipulating packages?
Why would it? I think it would be unnecessary complexity. All we need to
do is pick an appropriately compact ftp/http lib (and it's beginning to
look like libcurl is appropriately compact) and use it.
Max.
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