URGENT ---------------------------------------------------------------
+
+IMPORTANT ------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Cross-test versions
+
+ Part of the regression suite should be making sure that we don't
+ break backwards compatibility: old clients vs new servers and so
+ on. Ideally we would test the cross product of versions.
+
+ It might be sufficient to test downloads from well-known public
+ rsync servers running different versions of rsync. This will give
+ some testing and also be the most common case for having different
+ versions and not being able to upgrade.
+
+use chroot
+
+ If the platform doesn't support it, then don't even try.
+
+ If running as non-root, then don't fail, just give a warning.
+ (There was a thread about this a while ago?)
+
+ http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2001-August/thread.html
+ http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2001-September/thread.html
+
+--files-from
+
+ Avoids traversal. Better option than a pile of --include statements
+ for people who want to generate the file list using a find(1)
+ command or a script.
+
+Performance
+
+ Traverse just one directory at a time. Tridge says it's possible.
+
+ Can possibly also be smarter about memory use while looking for hard
+ links by reducing the refcount as we find alternative names.
+
+IPv6
+
+ Define a syntax for IPv6 literal addresses. Since they include
+ colons, they tend to break most naming systems, including ours.
+ Based on the HTTP IPv6 syntax, I think we should use
+
+ rsync://[::1]/foo/bar
+ [::1]::bar
+
+ which should just take a small change to the parser code.
+
+PLATFORMS ------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Win32
+
+ Don't detach, because this messes up --srvany.
+
+ http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-08/msg00234.html
+
+ According to "Effective TCP/IP Programming" (??) close() on a socket
+ has incorrect behaviour on Windows -- it sends a RST packet to the
+ other side, which gives a "connection reset by peer" error. On that
+ platform we should probably do shutdown() instead. However, on Unix
+ we are correct to call close(), because shutdown() discards
+ untransmitted data.
+
+BUILD FARM -----------------------------------------------------------
+
+Add machines
+
+ AMDAHL UTS (Dave Dykstra)
+
+ Cygwin (on different versions of Win32?)
+
+ HP-UX variants (via HP?)
+
NICE -----------------------------------------------------------------
-Merge IPv6 support ***
+--no-detach and --no-fork options
+
+ Very useful for debugging. Also good when running under a
+ daemon-monitoring process that tries to restart the service when the
+ parent exits.
+
+hang/timeout friendliness
+
+ On
-A patch is available at
+internationalization
- ftp://ftp.kame.net/pub/kame/misc/rsync-244-v6-20000802.diff.gz
+ Change to using gettext(). Probably need to ship this for platforms
+ that don't have it.
-but tridge reckons it needs to be cleaned up before it can be
-accepted.
+ Solicit translations.
-This is now on the track-kameipv6 branch and can be moved across any
-time. The KAME people say that it should work on machines without
-IPv6 stacks.
+ Does anyone care?
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