[A-a-p-user] News: Examples, wildcard expansion and rsync support

[Bram M. <Br...@mo...>]

Examples

Two larger examples have been made to show how Aap can be used. One is
for building and installing Exuberant Ctags. The other for maintaining a
web site, with automatic uploading and version control. You can find
them on the examples page: http://www.a-a-p.org/examples.html


Wildcard Expansion

Wildcard expansion is now done in most places where a file name is used.
This avoids the need for using the Python glob() function and makes many
recipes simpler. Avoiding wildcard expansion has become a bit more
difficult. Read about the backgrounds for this choice in design decision
28: http://www.a-a-p.org/decisions.html#28


Rsync and Rcp Support

Support for using rsync has been added. This mostly works like scp, but
only those parts of a file that have actually changed are transferred.
Rsync is used like scp, just use "rsync://" instead of "scp://" and it
should work. The same ssh connection is used. I am now using rsync to
upload the A-A-P website. While testing it I accidentally included a
directory name, and discovered that it was created automatically. The
code that does this for scp apparently also works for rsync. Using rcp
is also possible, but this hasn't been tested yet.

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