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I have a task where I need to look for updates between a bunch of files on server and a bunch of files on local computer. I am totally at loss here, what way will be the best and fastest ?
I am planning on using libcurl with c++ to log on to ftp.
Depends a bit about other factors like if others but one way could be to create a directory structure where the date is the directory name. The advantage of this its easy to find what belongs to a particular update and you can sort the directories after name e.g. yyyymmdd. You just need to remember when the last update was, you can also include a file with information about changes and a version number to make it extra user friendly.
Normally a release may consist of several new files so keeping them together under the same umbrella may be a good idea instead of updating each individual file since after some time it may make it complicated to remember what fits together.