Re: GEP-4 : Versioning and branching rules proposal

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Telsa Gwynne wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 03:08:56PM +0200 or thereabouts, Danigo Ludovic wrote:
>  
>
> > Le ven 30/08/2002 à 12:18, Frederic Crozat a écrit :
> >    
> >
> > > Here is the announce for GEP-4 : versioning and branching rules for
> > > GNOME modules..
> > >
> > > Discussions should be done on desktop-devel list..
> > >      
> > BTW, I don't really know if it's the scope of this gep, but can there
> > have diff for every realese like some hackers used to do in the past ?
> > Please think of those who still only have a RTC connection.
> >    
>
> I used to collect the diffs when I was on the 28.8 modem, particularly
> of Gnome 1.0.50 onwards and 1.1 packages. I should warn you that
> a lot of those diffs didn't seem to apply and I often ended up
> downloading the complete thing overnight as a cron job after all. 
>
> I do think we should be doing them, but I hope I was just unlucky
> with my experiences.
>  
This is mostly because diff doesn't work with binary files.  Maybe it 
would be worth providing xdeltas instead?

James.

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