On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 11:15:16AM -0400, Greg Stein wrote: > The "few" that I was talking about were the "skip" and "mark" > concepts, too. Those seem to be very specialized, and maybe only used > by the "patch" code?
They are only used by the patch code. They are used while reading content from the patch target which can either be in a file or in memory (in case we're patching a property). So the stream abstraction is useful there but the patch code also requires seeking capabilities. We can make these APIs private if you like. Though I guess other clients might find them useful, too. We'll have to support this code anyway as part of the patch implementation.
