Re: How to push updates to a development server?

Allen Fowler wrote:
>>> 2) Windows. While it may be possible to use rsync under Cygwin, etc, I'd
>>> rather a more native solution.
>> Have you tried robocopy?
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> That's an interesting option,... never heard of it.
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> Of course, it's just for windows.
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> What i'm looking for is some sort of cross platform Python/Perl/etc script to take care of this.
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> I guess it does not exist.

Probably because you'd likely use cygwin ssh for the cross-platform
connectivity layer - in which case you might as well just use rsync.
However, there has been a long-standing bug in rsync where it would hang
when run under cygwin sshd that may or may not be fixed in the current
version. The cygwin rsync version does work well in standalone daemon
mode or when the comand is issued on the cygwin/windows side (using ssh
is OK if the remote answering sshd is unix/linux).

Anyway, a pure-perl version of rsync would be a possibility if someone
wants to do a lot of work. There is a variation with some additional
functionality for the backuppc program at
http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-RsyncP/. I'm not sure how much it
would need to be changed to have a standalone mode.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
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