On 06/30/10 01:02 AM, Mike Hansen wrote:
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Tim Daly<d...@axiom-developer.org> wrote:
I'm surprised you don't use patch.
Mercurial can generate patches.
The issue is not generating the patches -- it's applying them. All of
the spkgs (should) have the diff as well as the file with the patch
applied.
--Mike
I can't myself see what we gain having the diff and the modified version. Even
if we stick to using 'cp' (which is a bad idea in my opinion), I would much
rather create the diff myself if I want to see it.
Experience tells me that if there is a file called 'diff' it is quite likely an
old one which someone has not updated. So I personally never trust their
contents - I'd just rather create it myself if I need it. Since they can't be
trust, I don't believe they serve a useful function myself.
Personally I believe if we added the small GNU patch utility to Sage, it save
more space than it uses. We could over time delete a lot of large files, which
have only small changes from original large files.
Dave
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