Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 01:26:08 +0200 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Cc: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Adding bsdiff to the base system Message-ID: <200504020126.16738.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <424DC747.4020604@wadham.ox.ac.uk> References: <424B3AAB.6090200@wadham.ox.ac.uk> <p0621020fbe735b39c6b3@[128.113.24.47]> <424DC747.4020604@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
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--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--
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