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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Type-specific diff & patch


From: Andy Tai
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Type-specific diff & patch
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 10:40:51 -0700

On 5/2/06, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
Matteo Settenvini <address@hidden> writes:
>      b) a plugin system; maybe Arch 2 should become little more than a
> specification and a framework, in the sense that gstreamer is; there
> could be plugins for a pletora of things, ranging from merging
> algorithms to supported media / transport protocols; and maybe even a
> plugin for special treatment of certain mime-types -- for example,
> imagine a .odt OpenOffice.org document: it's mostly a bunch of XML files
> compressed in a unique archive. Instead of doing a binary diff of it,
> knowing its ``semantic'' we could diff just its plain-text contents

File-specific diff would be feasible in Arch 1, and it'd be nice to do
it (I meant to give it a try but haven't had time so far).


Patches on this very welcome!

--
Andy Tai, address@hidden




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