setup RFC: Ditch homegrown http/ftp code and use a library?

[Robert Collins]

On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 12:11 +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote:
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> Robert Collins wrote:
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> > Calculating which file to use as a basis for rsync is easy without
> > symlinks: Its just the 'closest to the version being downloaded'.
> > Define closest as you would intuitively: two package files with the
> > same x.y.z components are closer than two with the same x.y and
> > different z.
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> In my idea symlinks were not used to "select" the version, just to let
> rsync think the file is already present locally, and with old file"
> content, so that its content is used for optimization.

Thats my point : rsync doesn't require the same file name to use the
content for optimisation. You tell rsync what file to use as the basis,
and what file to write to.

Cheers,
Rob

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