On Friday 18 February 2005 11:21, Robin Monks wrote: > Hello! > > I'd like to make a request and ask a favor. First some background. > Each OOo 1.9.xx download is ~75MB. This take about 4 hours to > download on 56K. > I'd like to make the suggestions that a *binary patch application* > be used between version in one of the following ways: > 1) On the Install zip (hence allowing a user to patch thier setup) > 2) On the Application folders and only on the changed files. > 3) On the *.cab files in the .zip and the setup.exe. > > Some of these open source programs could do the job: > 1) http://sourceforge.net/projects/jojodiff/ (dos APP with other OSs too) > 2) http://sourceforge.net/projects/javapatcher/ (cross-os Java Patcher) > > Now, the favor part. Could someone who has both 1.9.77 and 1.9.79 > on Windows try one or more of the above methods and see how it'd work? > And if you don't mind, send me a copy too. > I feel this would realy speed up end-user updates and would > encourace end-users to update thier applications more often. > Also, since the patched version /is/ the new version Check Sums > should return correctly. > > What do you guys think?
As ever all this needs is someone to implement it. Since you seem to know about these tools you seem to be a good candidate. Also note that http://installaiton.openoffice.org -> "Mailing list" may be a better place to work with the relevant developers. However do not forget to subscribe to the mailing list. -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
