Adam Williamson wrote:
At present we are
still in the contradictory and unsatisfactory position of
shipping rsync
with an internal forked zlib but refusing to accept zsync
as a
package
because it does exactly the same thing.
I hope this would not mean that rsync would be discontinued
in favour of zsync.
The zsync website states:
"[W]here rsync is designed for synchronising data from one
computer to another..., zsync is designed for file
distribution, with one file on a server to be distributed to
thousands of downloaders."
I use rsync every day for exactly its intended purpose, but I
have NO use of the latter function.