On 09/10/2012 Andre Fischer wrote:
In the last days I looked into how to create installation patches for updating AOO. Using patches instead of full installation packages would lead to smaller files to distribute for updating AOO on the next release.
This is really great news! A lot of users would prefer to have smaller, incremental updates available. And when you are ready for testers to jump in, just ask.
Note that I have concentrated on the Windows platform for the time being. [1] http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Building_installation_packages
It's a pity that all the technology is OS-specific here. But, as Pedro wrote, covering Windows would already be a big step forward. And Linux-based systems will hopefully offer OpenOffice from their repositories again (or at least this is something we would definitely try upon graduation) so the need for incremental updates is not so big there. Mac users, on the contrary, would probably like to have it but are fewer than the Windows users. So it's OK to do this for Windows, then think about Mac, then about Linux-based systems unless existing technologies like DeltaRPM already offer a reduced download size.
Regards, Andrea.
