Adding bsdiff to the base system

[John Baldwin]

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.

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