setup RFC: Ditch homegrown http/ftp code and use a library?

[Lapo Luchini]

Robert Collins wrote:

>Thats my point : rsync doesn't require the same file name to use the
>content for optimisation. You tell rsync what file to use as the basis,
>and what file to write to.
>
This, if you rsync one file at a time, but if you create the symlinks in
every directory, then you can rsync the whole directory tree with a
single command, and is much more efficient. (only one connection for all
the files)

Anyway... this could lead to a more-optimized script to "download most
of it", not really to be included in "setup" so...

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