Re: StepSync 0.1 : wrong path and folders empty

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Patrick,

Patrick Cardona via Discussion list for the GNUstep programming 
environment wrote:
> Hi Riccardo,
>
> I added some subfolders of subfolders... with new files to the source 
> folder. F.e. :
>
> TRAVAIL/COURS/3LA/Dictee39
> TRAVAIL/COURS/3LA/Dictee310
>
> When I made a sync with StepSync to the target :
> 'TRAVAIL' on a removable device
> where the path 'COURS/3LA' was already there,
> I found two issues :
>
> 1) The new subfolders have been appended at the root of the Target 
> folder 'TRAVAIL' : bad path. We should expect the new path to be 
> created like 'mkdir -p in the CLI'.
> 2) And these folders were empty : we should not expect the files to be 
> copied in each folder when the path is wrong. So the 2nd issue seemed 
> linked to the first.
>
> I suspected something went wrong because the status between the two 
> folders showed inconsistent numbers in the window of StepSync after it 
> proceeded.
>
> Are you using something like rsync under the UI ?
> Maybe you already know those issues and planned to correct those in 
> the upcoming release ?

this is a little bit unexpected, I have used StepSync hundreds of times 
for my own use.
I do not use rsync under the UI, the engine is "mine" and completely 
written inside GNUstep's Base capabilities.

However, I did really a lot of work in 0.2 comparted to past release. 
Really revamped the core, added multi-threading and fixed countless 
things. I never have seen your specific bug, but maybe it is "fixed by 
miracle" ?
Now that you have full GAP you could try it if you want.

Riccardo