url formats/mechanisms

[Aaron Bentley]

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Matthieu Moy wrote:
> James Mills <prologic at shortcircuit.net.au> writes:

>>I'd personally like to see other methods such as rsync and ssh and
>>perhaps a bzr server (ie: bzr:// perhaps this might help solve the
>>issue of having a central repository that some people want).

I'm working on a central repository approach that doesn't require a
smart server.  Using a smart server doesn't simplify the problem much,
but of course would have nice advantages for speed, and possibly for
concurrent access.

> rsync is at least possible to get a local mirror of the remote
> archive. I think there's a plugin providing rpull to do like "pull"
> over rsync.

There aren't any good rsync libraries (ask Martin why :-) so we have to
use the commandline tool, which is only really good for batched
download, not any kind of smart operation like partial retrieval or
incremental download queueing.  So I think the best way to do an
implementation of 'native' rsync would be to make/update a local mirror,
then do operations using the local mirror.

Aaron
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