[Joshua, please look at the last two paragraphs.]
> How to make xdeltas? Can you provide some information how to handle
> those files? Is it like diff and patch?
xdelta 1.1.3 (don't use 2.x which has different purposes) produces
`binary diffs', so to say. Assuming you have foo-1.1.tar.gz and
foo-1.2.tar.gz, say
xdelta delta foo-1.1.tar.gz foo-1.2.tar.gz foo-1.1-1.2.tar.gz.xdelta
to get a binary diff between the two compressed tarballs. It can be
then applied to foo-1.1.tar.gz with
xdelta patch foo-1.1-1.2.tar.gz.xdelta
(foo-1.1.tar.gz must be in the same directory) to create
foo-1.2.tar.gz.
xdelta has special code to handle gzipped archives (it decompresses
them automatically); it doesn't work with other compressed archive
formats like .bz2 or .zip -- well, it works, but the xdelta will
become as big as the original archive.
It might be a nice idea to add `--use-compress-program=PROG' (similar
to the tar program) to overcome this restriction. Joshua, I've just
seen that version 3 has appeared on xdelta.org. Are you planning to
implement something like that? And can xdelta3 handle deltas create
by xdelta version 1.1.3?
Werner
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