Re: A 'diff' eq for binaries?
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Josh MacDonald wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> The subject of patching .debs has come up again, and this time I have a
> new solution to the problem. Xdelta 2.0-BETA has been released for about
> a month now. See:
>
> http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jmacd/xdelta.html
>
> The new system is ideally suited to .deb distribution. The delta-compressed
> storage management provided by Xdelta 2.0 automatically compresses multiple
> versions of a file using deltas, but it also can extract a delta between
> arbitrary versions. This allows a server process to generate exactly the
> delta needed by a client on-the-fly, without storing all ("*EVERY*") delta
> combinations.
>
> I'm currently looking for developers interested in using this.
As a matter of fact I am free (still not a developer) and I have plenty of
time these days. (On the other hand I have another offer; if turns out to
be too stupid, I will remain free).
Hope, I can help,
Pavel
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