[Perlrsync-users] File::RsyncP

[Beau E. C. <be...@ha...>]

Hi Craig,

I have a customer running Windows who wants to access
rsync servers; for various reasons ( political, not real )
he refuses to run the rsync client under cygwin.
( For that matter it took me almost one year to convince
him that running perl on his network would not bring the
sky crashing down upon him - you have to admire the skill
of the Microsoft marketing team to be able to convince
so many people that software not developed or blessed by
them is evil ). So I looked around and found your
File::RsyncP module, and gave it a try. I does not compile
under Windows. OK, I said, and proceeded to tweak the source
for Win32 and had mixed results. I can't seem to get the
memory allocation right ( I get a Windows error on free ).

It looks like the 'easiest' ( well, it should be at least
easier ;) ) way to get him running is to make a pure-perl
implementation of the module. My coding is abount half done.
I have converted the Digest module and it tests OK against
the xs version running on my Linux. Coding is well under way
on the FileList module.

Now I know this implementation is going to be slow and a
memory hog, but it will have the advantage of being portable
- at least to Windows. With your blessing I plan to release a
development version of the pure-perl module to CPAN in the
next week or so. I am thinking of naming it 'File::RsyncPP'.
Does that name fit or do you have any other suggestions?

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