svn commit: r183718 - head/sbin/geom/class/part

[Oliver Fromme]

Ivan Voras wrote:
 > 2008/10/9 Oliver Fromme <olli at fromme.com>:
 > 
 > > PS:  Ivan:  I decided to implement displaying diffs,
 > > as you suggested.  Working on it right now.  It only
 > > stores the most recent diffs (currently 10 days).
 > 
 > Thanks, this will be completely sufficient for RSS!

I think it doesn't make sense to include the diffs
in the RSS "feed".  Currently I only plan to put
the diffs on the web page.

RSS/atom "feeds" are OK for little pieces of news,
but not for things that can easily grow to a few
megabytes.  Keep in mind that feeds are polled by
the client, i.e. downloaded completely each time.
This is a serious design flaw.  It would be much
better if the client could ask for new information
and only download what it doesn't already have
(much like the NNTP protocol for news servers),
but RSS/atom does not support this.

(On a side note, another problem is that the RSS
and atom standards don't provide a portable way to
include <pre>...</pre> sections in the XML content,
so it's not possible to format the diffs properly.)

Best regards
   Oliver

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