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Re:SSH browser with rsync transfer engine by scintill76 on Sunday July 30, 2017 @02:26AM (#14884668)
I think it means rsync must be installed. It probably starts rsync as you say.
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Re:SSH browser with rsync transfer engine by rzzzt on Sunday July 30, 2017 @04:59AM (#14885082)
feelix is probably thinking of transferring an rsync binary first, when it is not available on the remote end.
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Re:SSH browser with rsync transfer engine by tiernano on Sunday July 30, 2017 @07:12AM (#14885460)
How would you easily figure out which version to install? Having a requirement of rsync already installed on the box sounds reasonable, compared to having x86, x64, arm32, arm64, and the rest binaries in the client download...
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Re:SSH browser with rsync transfer engine by scintill76 on Sunday July 30, 2017 @07:25PM (#14888436)
And that's not counting different OS's, different dependencies such as libc. In my opinion those things would be far out of scope for this project.
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Re:SSH browser with rsync transfer engine by therein on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @11:48PM (#14907762)
I agree that it is beyond the scope of this project but a statically linked (with musl libc) rsync would be possible.

Like these guys: http://sta.li/

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Re:SSH browser with rsync transfer engine by bonhardcomp on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @11:28AM (#14911300)
Nice. Am gonna be doing this.
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