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Re: Proposal: Provide diffs between consensuses
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 12:44:03AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
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> - Do we agree on using the ed patch format?
I finally figured out what questions I wanted to answer this question
with. :)
There are two things we want in a patch format:
1. There needs to be a spec for generating and applying patches.
The spec for generating them needs to be deterministic (or have a
deterministic variant) so that authorities can all generate the
same patch.
2. There should be a good Free Software library (3BSD-like license,
ideally) to generate and apply patches. We'll be way happier if
we don't have to write this code ourselves, I think: string
processing like this can get really grungy. In a pinch, we might
get away with shelling out for generating patches (since only
authorities need to do that), but clients need to be able to do
it themselves safely, and we'll be in luck if we don't have to
reinvent the wheel here.
thoughts? How do ed patches stack up in these areas?
--
Nick