[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > Maybe a misunderstanding. xdelta should be used not to produce diffs
> > for binary files but to produce diffs between tar archives, e.g.
>
> For changes to be useful, you must be able to use standard software to
> apply them. xdelta is not (yet) standard software. Since we also use
> diffs to track what happens in development, they changes must be human
> readable. xdelta also fails this requirement.
I have often read the diff files to find out what has happened, so
we cannot replace them. On the other hand, I fetch the full tarball
via modem for each new release, so a binary diff of the tar files
could save some minutes of connection time per month.
/Mats
