Adding bsdiff to the base system

[Ceri Davies]

On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 03:16:02PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On Apr 1, 2005, at 6:26 PM, Max Laier wrote:
> 
> >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!
> 
> Heh, that's what I thought the "bs" stood for at first as well given 
> that that is bs{diff,patch}'s claim to fame.

I am starting to think it's "BikeShed Diff" ;-)

Ceri
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