On Monday 13 Jun 2011 2:03:29 PM Julian Leviston wrote: > I think the main issue with smalltalk-like "image" systems is that the > system doesn't as easily let you "start from blank" like text-file > source-code style coding does... thats to say, yes, it's possible to start > new worlds, but it's not very easy to reference "bits" of your worlds from > each other... The pre-req for this is a tool to diff two images to generate a delta that can be applied to one to produce another. This is easy to do with line-oriented text files or non-linear xml files but difficult to do with blobs like images. Tools like xdelta operate only at bit level and not object level.
Of course, if there was a (normalized) way to transcode .image into .xml and vice versa then xmldiff can be used for that purpose. Subbu _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
