17 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-archAdding bsdiff to the base system| From | Sent On | Attachments |
|---|---|---|
| Colin Percival | Mar 30, 2005 3:47 pm | |
| Ceri Davies | Mar 31, 2005 2:16 am | |
| Alexey Dokuchaev | Mar 31, 2005 2:24 am | |
| Colin Percival | Mar 31, 2005 2:33 am | |
| Colin Percival | Mar 31, 2005 2:47 am | |
| Robert Watson | Mar 31, 2005 9:06 pm | |
| Mario Hoerich | Apr 1, 2005 5:43 am | |
| Dan Nelson | Apr 1, 2005 7:27 am | |
| Garance A Drosihn | Apr 1, 2005 12:16 pm | |
| Alex Burke | Apr 1, 2005 1:18 pm | |
| Colin Percival | Apr 1, 2005 2:12 pm | |
| Max Laier | Apr 1, 2005 3:26 pm | |
| John Baldwin | Apr 2, 2005 12:15 pm | |
| Ceri Davies | Apr 4, 2005 8:45 am | |
| Olaf Wagner | Apr 6, 2005 11:49 pm | |
| Colin Percival | Apr 7, 2005 12:35 am | |
| John Polstra | Apr 8, 2005 8:11 am |
| Subject: | Adding bsdiff to the base system | |
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| From: | John Baldwin (jh...@FreeBSD.org) | |
| Date: | Apr 2, 2005 12:15:50 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-arch | |
On Apr 1, 2005, at 6:26 PM, Max Laier wrote:
On Saturday 02 April 2005 00:12, Colin Percival wrote:
In the last episode (Apr 01), Mario Hoerich said:
Not that it's important, but the names probably aren't the best possible choice, as 'bsdiff' seems to suggest 'BSD licensed diff'.
No, it would be "BSD licensed iff". :-)
At 9:28 AM -0600 4/1/05, Dan Nelson wrote:
Yes, that's what I assumed this thread was about for the first couple posts. bdiff/bpatch sound like better names. What's the 's' stand for?
Err... nothing. Or rather, I'm not sure what it stands for. I was looking for a name for a diff tool which worked on "binary software" (or more generally, files with lots of "byte-substitutions"), and which uses "bytewise subtraction" as part of its encoding process... (I'm sure you can think of other possible meanings of "bs", as well.)
Though it's "*B*inary *S*mall diff" ... and I like that name!
Heh, that's what I thought the "bs" stood for at first as well given that that is bs{diff,patch}'s claim to fame.
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