Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited 6/2003 from 11/2000)

[Greg F. <fre...@No...>]

Have you tried the 0.9.6 candidate with cygwin.dll 1.5.1?

cygwin.dll 1.5.1 is still "experimental" I believe, but it supports
large files.  (Stable cygwin.dll only handles 32-bit offsets).

Greg
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Greg Freemyer

On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 23:02, Donovan Baarda wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 11:05, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> > Donovan Baarda wrote:
> > 
> > > For the record, librsync version 0.9.6 is _almost_ ready in CVS. A bug
> > >
> > >has been detected but not isolated yet for large files (2G+). If it's
> > >not squashed soon I'm tempted to release anyway with a KNOWN_BUGS that
> > >reports this.
> 
> Last night I found and squashed a bug that caused the problem. I'm
> waiting on feedback from the user that reported it to confirm it is now
> fixed.
> 
> > Donovan,
> > 
> > I am just looking around for hints on compiling librsync under cygwin 
> > (gcc), and happened to find this post of your promising 0.9.6, which 
> > runs under cygwin... 
> > <http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=b7jecs%242sdr%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dcygwin%2Blibrsync%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg>
> 
> I know that post was ages ago, but due to work commitments I never got a
> chance to release it. Every time I got a small chance to look at it
> again, I kept finding little niggly things that really should have been
> fixed before release.
> 
> The CVS is only intermittently updated, so I only bother tagging on
> release, which still hasn't happened yet. The CVS HEAD is the current
> release candidate. I don't commit unless it passes a "make distcheck" so
> it should never be broken. 
> 
> > Are the sources at least tagged, so I can get the mfrom CVS? What tags?
> 
> Your timing is impeccable. Just last night I finalised the MSVC updates
> and fixed the last known bug. That means there is nothing outstanding
> for the release... this should be 0.9.6, but I'm giving it a day or so
> to get feedback before I tag and release.
> 
> There is a delay on SF between developer and anon CVS, so it is possible
> the final checkins are not yet visible. In the meantime, there is a
> tarball available at;
> 
> http://minkirri.apana.org.au/~abo/projects/librsync/librsync-0.9.6.tar.gz
> 
> This compiles and builds on win32 using cygwin and/or MSVC.