Comment by mort96
2 years ago
I recently found out that Apple is shipping rsync 2.6.9. That's from 2006. It's missing a bunch of features, and I'm guessing a bunch of protocol improvements and security fixes...
2 years ago
I recently found out that Apple is shipping rsync 2.6.9. That's from 2006. It's missing a bunch of features, and I'm guessing a bunch of protocol improvements and security fixes...
It's because newer versions of rsync switched license to GPL3 (from GPL2), and apparently Apple is not touching that with a ten foot pole. It's also why the included bash is frozen in time (and probably why they switched to zsh as the default interactive shell)