Technical Hurdles for Win32 rsync port

Question

Despite primarily being a windows user, I am a huge fan of rsync. Now, I don\'t want to argue the virtues of rsync vs any other tool...this is not my point.

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Answer 1

Have you seen this:

http://www.itefix.no/i2/taxonomy/term/39

I have used cwrsync without any problem (and with the much of the usual cygwin misery), but I haven't had any need for unicode filenames, so I've not seen that problem.

I don't really know why there isn't a native Win32 port, but I did look at the source a while back because I implemented a similar delta-copy system in C#. As one would expect from the world of brilliant *nix hackers, the source is largely single-character variable names and a total absence of comments, which isn't terrible helpful and might be rather off-putting to would-be porters.