An xdelta or something like that, which could be joined with a previous tarball to form the latest release would be great.
Besides, wouldn't it be possible to create binary spkg's that instead of containing the source code would contain the binaries and data which result after compilation? You could do things like that in source-based linux distros like gentoo. 2009/11/23 Harald Schilly <[email protected]> > On Nov 23, 6:24 pm, Jason Grout <[email protected]> wrote: > > rsync > > I think you mean rdiff-backup and I was thinking about bsdiff/bspatch. > About rsync, If you have problems downloading a big file, you will > even have more troubles doing rsync since it scans all 150,000 files > of sage and transfers all those that are different. My idea would be > to provide one single differential file that changes a binary to > another one. > As I told earlier, for now, with a flaky and weak connection, > metafiles are the best solution imho. > > H > > -- > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
