From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 1 23:26:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 805D216A4CE for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 23:26:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 878AF43D31 for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 23:26:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from [212.227.126.179] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1DHVXB-0002wi-00; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 01:26:37 +0200 Received: from [217.227.151.221] (helo=donor.laier.local) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1DHVXA-0000vl-00; Sat, 02 Apr 2005 01:26:37 +0200 From: Max Laier To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 01:26:08 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <424B3AAB.6090200@wadham.ox.ac.uk> <424DC747.4020604@wadham.ox.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <424DC747.4020604@wadham.ox.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1244220.2mfrUgNVmD"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200504020126.16738.max@love2party.net> X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:61c499deaeeba3ba5be80f48ecc83056 cc: Dan Nelson cc: Garance A Drosihn cc: lists@mhoerich.de cc: Colin Percival Subject: Re: Adding bsdiff to the base system X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 23:26:39 -0000 --nextPart1244220.2mfrUgNVmD Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 02 April 2005 00:12, Colin Percival wrote: > >> In the last episode (Apr 01), Mario Hoerich said: > >>> Not that it's important, but the names probably aren't the best > >>> possible choice, as 'bsdiff' seems to suggest 'BSD licensed diff'. > > No, it would be "BSD licensed iff". :-) > > > At 9:28 AM -0600 4/1/05, Dan Nelson wrote: > >> Yes, that's what I assumed this thread was about for the first > >> couple posts. bdiff/bpatch sound like better names. What's the > >> 's' stand for? > > Err... nothing. Or rather, I'm not sure what it stands for. I was > looking for a name for a diff tool which worked on "binary software" (or > more generally, files with lots of "byte-substitutions"), and which uses > "bytewise subtraction" as part of its encoding process... (I'm sure you > can think of other possible meanings of "bs", as well.) Though it's "*B*inary *S*mall diff" ... and I like that name! > Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > I was also confused by the names at first. How about just > > 'bindiff' and 'binpatch'? These do sound like useful utilities > > to add, now that I understand what they are... > > When I first wrote this code, I called it "bdiff". Soon thereafter, it > was pointed out to me that there was a bit of a namespace collision -- the > name "bdiff" -- and the name "bindiff", which was my second choice -- had > each been used for several different (not very good) binary diff tools > already. > > So I looked for a name which hadn't already been used by several other > people, and settled on "bsdiff" / "bspatch" as a compromise between being > descriptive and avoiding the possibility of getting confused with another > program. > > This is all rather immaterial at this point, however: It's far too late > to change the name now. > > Colin Percival > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --nextPart1244220.2mfrUgNVmD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCTdiYXyyEoT62BG0RAqBRAJ99TuLjoE55w5QS46MGthXwWfQKsACfe7mC sVFYFDcgBkfBKdZUmmUQAlU= =0xLf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1244220.2mfrUgNVmD--