Re: [Pan-users] Re: Better processing of very large groups?

[Ron Johnson]

On 2009-07-03 08:49, Duncan wrote:
[snip]
> The proprietaryware world is of course rather different, since there's 
> generally only a very limited few bit-unique binary versions out there, 
> often only one for a particular product version, and it's thus much 
> simpler to provide binary patches for them.

Even in the closed-source world, there can be lots of "sub-minor" 
versions out there, especially for stuff like Oracle, which releases 
security upgrades on a regular basis, not to mention supporting many 
OSs on many architectures.  You'd need *lots* of binary diffs, and 
that's a hassle to manage, both from, for example, Oracle's side and 
from the customer's side.

In this day of high-bandwidth pipes, and DVDs-via-FedEx, there 
really is no overriding need for binary diffs.

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