On Friday 09 June 2017 06:38 PM, Guillermo Polito wrote:
On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Yuriy Tymchuk <[email protected]
When I asked it 2 years ago people were like: "oh, but you can just
download 1 sources file and use it by all the images". I don’t care
about that micro space savings, but fine, I said: have it your way.
Now as we have to download sources all the time, why cannot we just
have it IN the image?
We can, but that's something that requires changing lot's of things
inside the image and it requires probably lot of testing.
What if the sources is appended to the image file with a special header.
New code can relocate this pointer on the fly. The same technique can be
applied to changes file too. A small script can split files for older
code or combine them for new code.
The resulting image file will be backward compatible. New code can
preserve these files across saves.
Just a thought .. Subbu
