| From: | David Trollope |
| Date: | 14 Sep 2000 at 01:33:14 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Compressed archive formats and Installers |
Hi Alex,
>> At the expense of patch file size. I much prefer distributing
>> tiny patch files that run patch to modify the executable.
>> [...] It also forces the user to have the right version to
>> patch from, and this can prevent wierd things happen when a
>> stupid user gets hold of a patched executable and tries to
>> run it in the wrong environment.
>
> Good point,
Whoa yippee - someone actually said I made a good point. Thank you ;-)
> I ignored the patching of large files. Maybe a
> micro-merge file system which lets you patch parts of files?
> I was thinking about doing something similar for the Amiga
> long ago, but decided it wasn't useful. Guess I should look
> into how patch programs work, think about version control,
> and maybe even worry about authentication. Then decide if
> it's inappropriate to stick it into a file system.
A micro-merge filesystem. Interesting. You know that would be kind of
interesting. An OS called inferno let you bind together any dir to give you
a view which looked like a filesystem. It was nice. Now if that was expanded
to allow automatic patching of the two sources it would be real cool as you
would be able to patch CDROMs... Not physically, but 1 source being the
CDROM, the second source in the view being the patch. When you access the
view, you see the patched file.... In fact you could actually migrate from
one version of software to another by just creating a view of patched files....
A traditional filesystem only allows you to view through whole files, this
would be different.
Jesse, could you make the OE allow patched objects?
Dave
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