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Gerhard Haering wrote:

>On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 05:21:30PM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote:
>
>
>>i need something which has a python library, so far i haven't seen
>>anything like that for rsync. i'll check out the others but
>>
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>http://osx.freshmeat.net/projects/pysync/
>
> """
> Pysync has both a demonstration implementation of the rsync and
> related algorithms in pure Python, and a high speed librsync Python
> extension. The pure Python is not fast and is not optimized, however
> it does work and provides a simple implementation of the algorithm
> for reference and experimentation. It includes a combination of
> ideas taken from librsync, xdelta, and rsync. The librsync Python
> extension is less flexible and harder to understand, but is very
> fast.
> """
>
>
pysync hasn't been worked on in years by the looks of it. no new
releases since 03. and the last release was for 2.1, so i'm dubious
about it working at all? the windows installer doesn't work either.

Timothy Smith wrote:
> Gerhard Haering wrote:
>> http://osx.freshmeat.net/projects/pysync/
>>
> pysync hasn't been worked on in years by the looks of it. no new
> releases since 03. and the last release was for 2.1, so i'm dubious
> about it working at all? the windows installer doesn't work either.

You can (apparently) contact the maintainer ("ABO") for windows binaries
if you need them. He is also on the librsync project, which has as its
latest news "0.9.6 released", and the release in 2003 of pysync was
intended to update it to use librsync 0.9.6. That suggests to me this
is more a case of "things work" than a case of "dead project".

In any case, pysync itself doesn't even have code to walk the directory
tree or send data, just the delta/patch code, so unless you plan to
build the other parts for yourself it may not be what you need. (On the
other hand, if you need just the delta/patch code, it sounds like it
should work fine.) I haven't tried it myself (yet).

-Peter