Message-Id: <200110072131.f97LVht17289@delorie.com> Sender: rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 13:02:40 +0100 From: Richard Dawe X-Accept-Language: de,fr To: DJGPP announcements Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP packages of XDelta 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hello. I'm please to announce the release of the DJGPP port of XDelta 1.1.2. This release contains mainly minor bugfixes over the previous version (1.1.1). Please see the file 'contrib/xdlt112/news' for a complete list of changes. Here is a description of XDelta, from its 'readme' file: "XDelta is a library interface and application program designed to compute changes between files. These changes (deltas) are similar to the output of the "diff" program in that they may be used to store and transmit only the changes between files. However, unlike diff, the output of XDelta is not expressed in a human-readable format--XDelta can also also apply these deltas to a copy of the original file(s). XDelta uses a fast, linear algorithm and performs well on both binary and text files. XDelta typically outperforms GNU diff in both time and generated-delta-size, even for plain text files. XDelta also includes a simple implementation of the Rsync algorithm and several advanced features for implementing RCS-like file-archival with." XDelta is distributed under the GNU General Public License. The port is available from the DJGPP archive on SimTel.NET: http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2tk/xdlt112b.zip&name=xdlt112b.zip http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2tk/xdlt112s.zip&name=xdlt112s.zip These are binary and source distributions respectively. If you only want to use XDelta, please download the binary distribution. If you would like to rebuild XDelta, please download the source distribution. No changes were required to port XDelta to DJGPP. Thanks to Joshua MacDonald for incorporating the DJGPP patches into XDelta. Thanks to Eli Zaretskii for his detailed bug reports, suggestions and testing of XDelta in the past. If you have any problems, suggestions, etc. about the port, please mail me. Bye, -- Richard Dawe http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/