Re: vcdelta, xdelta, or what?

> I noticed that the VCDiff internet draft is due to expire
> (tomorrow), and I cannot find any references to an update. It seems
> to be a dead "standard".

Even if no one else uses vcdiff, it's still a nice file format in that
it doesn't impose any constraints on the source and destination
windows, or on the block copy generation algorithm.

>> We've been in discussions with Josh MacDonald (the author of
>> xdelta) for the last week.... more soon on this. :)

I'm a little concerned about using the xdelta code based on the size
of the package (perhaps the part we'd need is a small subset; not
sure), the fact that it uses glib and we use apr, and a recent note
about its performance which I don't quite recall--that it uses O(n)
space for n-byte files, I think. But of course I would like to know
the outcome of these discussions.
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:08 2006