[Box Backup-dev] Re: [Box Backup] Win32 port

[Martin Ebourne]

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 10:02 -0800, Gary wrote:
> I would be sad if the future version of BoxBackup did not include the
> KeepAlive time/command - it would make the product unusable for me
> (even with the excellent 0.9-chromi, KeepAlive is still needed for
> diffing 4GB files, otherwise you diff for only 300 seconds and upload
> 1GB+ each time over possibly a slow upload link).
> 
> I think the way to go would be to:
> 
> 1.) Modify vanilla 0.9 to better structure the observer code.
> 2.) Re-apply the KeepAlive >>command<< 0.9-mod parts.
> 3.) Manually add the KeepAlive >>observer<< to the (improved) 0.9 code.

I think it's important to get these changes in. But I wouldn't recommend
working off vanilla 0.9 for anything now, so many already parallel
codepaths we're still trying to merge. Hopefully in a couple of weeks
we'll have those collapsed down onto trunk, then would be the time to
dive in and code up the proper fix on a branch.

Cheers,

Martin.