Re: [Caml-list] File synchronization implementation(s) in OCaml?

[Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com>]

Check out Unison

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

Evgeny Roubinchtein <zhenya1007@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear OCaml users and developers,
>
> Do you have advice on:
>
> 1. Practical file synchronization algorithms.  Rsync is the low bar for my
> purposes here, i.e., I don't want anything that performs worse than rsync
> in practice, but I am wondering if there is a way to do better.  My
> completely uninformed attempt at searching the literature turned up this
> paper: http://engineering.nyu.edu/~suel/papers/recon.pdf, but I don't know
> anything about the area, so I am afraid that I don't even know what I don't
> know about the subject :-).  I am also aware that Unison has an
> implementation of an rsync-like algorithm, but I don't know much more than
> that about that implementation.
>
> 2. Existing implementation(s) of said algorithms in OCaml.
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> -- 
> Best,
> Evgeny ("Zhenya")