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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files'
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files' |
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Wed, 6 Apr 2005 08:37:01 +0100 |
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On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:20:15AM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 18:17:05 +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:34:25PM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:
> > > > Inexact patching for jpeg images anyone? Or for (ugh!) XML RSS
> > > > files[1]? Or...
> > >
> > > I believe there is some kind of xml-diff, that compares the trees, not
> > > the text ;-). One such is built into openoffice...
> >
> > Yes, but there's no corresponding patch tool, nor can there be (any
> > more than there can for xdelta), since XML is semantically null and
> > syntactically useless.
>
> Even if there is a problem with generic XML, because it may have
> arbitrary semantics, it is certainly possible to have a patch tool for
> formats built on XML that do have specific semantics, eg. the OpenOffice
> documents.
Which would be a patch tool for openoffice, and be almost entirely
unrelated to XML. Anyway, it still doesn't exist.
> > > And even if it's not inexact patching, instead of two versions, you can
> > > store one version and a difference. And knowing the nature of the data
> > > can make this more efficient.
> >
> > Delta compression is a fairly trivial storage optimisation that's not
> > particularly interesting. The archive isn't your problem for storage
> > anyway; it is the smallest thing in arch.
>
> If the archive stores mostly Word documents, it certainly does make
> a difference.
Still premature optimisation. There are far larger things to worry
about than archives.
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Andrew Suffield, 2005/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Cameron Patrick, 2005/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', tomas, 2005/04/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Jan Hudec, 2005/04/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', tomas, 2005/04/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Jan Hudec, 2005/04/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', tomas, 2005/04/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', David Allouche, 2005/04/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Robin Farine, 2005/04/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Jan Hudec, 2005/04/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files',
Andrew Suffield <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', tomas, 2005/04/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', tomas, 2005/04/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Josh England, 2005/04/06
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Tom Lord, 2005/04/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Jan Hudec, 2005/04/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Josh England, 2005/04/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Jan Hudec, 2005/04/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Tom Lord, 2005/04/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', tomas, 2005/04/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch with 'special files', Tom Lord, 2005/04/11