v2.1.5

What's Changed

• Windows: Ignore alternate streams on NTFS with CopyFile2 by @BigRoy in #25

Full Changelog: v2.1.4...v2.1.5

Fixing dependency specs

This release is fixing dependency specification for pysendfile

Fix Python 2 support in Poetry

This is fixing python 2 support and Poetry and stops installing unnecessary dependencies if not needed.

Small bug fix and Poetry support

This is fixing small bug and adding support for Poetry

Older Windows compatibility

This adds compatibility with older Windows versions (XP to 7).

Marking 2.x stable

After some testing, lets mark 2.x stable and official

Relative paths of windows

Fixing relative paths on windows.

Platform native calls

This pre-release use patform native call to copy files. On windows, this is CopyFile2() and on linux it uses special ioctl call do do server-side copy on samba shares. This is faster then on v1.x as there is no overhead from subprocess call to xcopy,

Size (Mb)	Python (win)	Speedcopy (win)	Python (linux)	Speedcopy (linux)	xcopy (win)	Win speedup	Linux speedup	speedcopy vs xcopy
1	0,08	0,02	0,07	0,01	0,15	3,59	6,89	6,02
2	0,17	0,03	0,09	0,01	0,16	6,70	8,51	5,79
4	0,33	0,03	0,13	0,01	0,16	12,02	11,14	4,84
8	0,67	0,03	0,19	0,01	0,17	19,97	13,26	4,35
16	1,36	0,04	0,29	0,02	0,18	35,29	14,78	2,82
32	2,36	0,06	0,47	0,03	0,20	37,78	16,40	0,20
64	57,45	0,98	8,01	0,47	2,24	58,88	16,95	13,44
128	10,93	0,17	1,33	0,23	0,31	65,48	5,77	0,13
256	20,38	2,28	2,66	0,48	2,95	8,96	5,56	0,74
512	35,95	4,00	5,38	0,98	4,42	8,99	5,49	0,16
1024	65,63	28,03	10,33	2,92	30,33	2,34	3,54	~0

Support for pypi and fixes in benchmark

This release fixes setup for pypi. Also fixes benchmark.py with patch_copyfile.

Fixing python 2.7 compatibility

This realese is fixing python 2.7 compatibility issues.