[Pybackpack] pybackpack thoughts and future

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 13:39 +0100, Andrew Price wrote:
> Hi Jeff,

> So for the moment I'll be concentrating on improving pybackpack's
> abstractions and then hopefully more people will be tempted to write
> code to work on extensions. Since I'm about to start the final year of
> my comp sci degree and I'll not have as much time for pybackpack, I'm
> hoping that will happen. As a wise man once said, "patches welcome" :-)

I've been looking at a bunch of different code in this last week
specifically about this problem. Duplicity and rdiff-backup both seem to
have the same problem - they've been written as an end-user app and less
as an app that can be imported an accessed as a library. I've also been
looking to see if librsync.py in both of the above can be used directly
and w/o much trouble as a simple rsync mechanism. The docs are a bit
scarce but it might be possible to get that happening. I'm going to ask
around on the duplicity/rdiff-backup lists a bit to see if there's
something obvious I've missed for docs on how to do that.

-sv