More discussion about zlib.

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
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@@ -220,10 +220,30 @@ Empty directories
   can end up with many empty directories.  We might avoid this by
   lazily creating such directories.
 
   can end up with many empty directories.  We might avoid this by
   lazily creating such directories.
 

+

 zlib
 
 zlib
 

-  Perhaps don't use our own zlib.  Will we actually be incompatible,
-  or just be slightly less efficient?
+  Perhaps don't use our own zlib.  
+
+  Advantages:
+   
+    - will automatically be up to date with bugfixes in zlib
+
+    - can leave it out for small rsync on e.g. recovery disks
+
+    - can use a shared library
+
+    - avoids people breaking rsync by trying to do this themselves and
+      messing up
+
+  Should we ship zlib for systems that don't have it, or require
+  people to install it separately?
+
+  Apparently this will make us incompatible with versions of rsync
+  that use the patched version of rsync.  Probably the simplest way to
+  do this is to just disable gzip (with a warning) when talking to old
+  versions.
+

 
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