A more efficient up2date service using binary diffs

[Joe Desbonnet]

Right now it's a Java webapp running in Tomcat. I realize that this
may not be practical for "production" use, but I find this environment
productive. Once it is stable it might be possible to remove the 
Tomcat dependency.

Maybe it can be compiled to native with gcj (?). If Java is a problem
(FC4 comes with Java by default?) porting to Python shouldn't be a
huge task.

The delta repository builder is logically a separate tool, but I will
bundle both in the same webapp for the moment. It could be invoked by
a 'wget' request scheduled by cron.

I hope to have a first release in about a week. If it turns out to be
useful I will be looking for suggestions on the delta repository
layout, delta file format etc

Joe.


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:33:58 +0100, Thomas Hille
<thomas.hille at nightsabers.org> wrote:
> 
> Do you want to do this via a standard ftp/http server (something like
> apache) and build the repository via a cron-job, or do you intend to
> write your own server, which implements all functions?
> 
> Either way this approach sounds good. This way you should be able
> showcase the results easily to a broad user base.
> 
> What language do you use - still java? I haven't used java for 2-3 years
> now, I'm more into PHP and Python at the moment. - But when you need a
> helping hand, mail me.
> 
> 
> Thomas
> 
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