hmm, is running diff -r DIR1 DIR2 >patch1 and putting patch1 up for download so hard to do?
Surely, a better way might be having the whole thing under a revision control system allowing (semi)anonymous pulls, than pulling an upgrade is trivial... (well, I would be mighty surpised learning Sage is not under a revision control system) On Jan 19, 5:48 pm, Dag Sverre Seljebotn <da...@student.matnat.uio.no> wrote: > Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > is it possible to make patches, instead/as well as posting full source > > releases? > > It took 4+ hours here to download rc0... > > One thing one could try out is to play with rsync over SSH to an account > on boxen.math. rsync the rc1 file with a local copy of the rc0 tarball, > and have rsync deal with computing deltas etc. > > If that works out well (I'm not sure how much compressed data would > change) then it's probably a method with lower maintenance overhead than > making patches. > > Dag Sverre
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