[Box Backup-dev] Hello all - win32 client

[G.]

Nick,

> I found the comments referring to large files (>2GB) in one of the
> messages - I did find it a little strange as I thought this was fixed

Oh, that's right, I never ran into it (I am slightly below 2GB for each file). That one indeed
might need fixing.

> Yes - block caching is what I had in mind, not sure what everyone else
> thoughts on this is, I definitely have seen issues with not having it.

IMHO, it would definitely be a useful feature, allowing large files to be uploaded in chunks,
rather than all-or-nothing. It would not be easy though, you would have to ask the server whether
it has a "block cache" for each large file, and whether all (or some) cached blocks match local
content (already), and then proceed with resume, until a file can be "comitted" to a store. Useful
feature though.

> I noticed it is either VS or the ming compiler - my understanding was
> the ming compiler was that it is not that much different from cygwin.

You would have to ask Chris, but I think mingw is a native Win32 compiler. It  would be useful,
however, if we used the same environment for all build/compile. VS2K5 would get my vote (it is,
after all, most widely used and most widely tested under Win32). There is even a free edition
these days :).

Gary


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