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| author | Matthew Endsley <mendsley@gmail.com> | 2012-10-23 18:39:48 -0700 |
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| committer | Matthew Endsley <mendsley@gmail.com> | 2012-10-23 18:39:48 -0700 |
| commit | ce07a29894acd74c52b975a42c02f11d9483566a (patch) | |
| tree | 5f30853da89cd63fbf49505884115aa969720e5c | |
| parent | 9807c0d4cdfaff3434429b8e4f45626909fd73cf (diff) | |
| download | bsdiff-ce07a29894acd74c52b975a42c02f11d9483566a.tar.gz | |
clarifying motivation for compat-breaking with bsdiffv4.3-endsley
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@@ -42,6 +42,15 @@ dirty you can copy paste the header portion at the top of the file into your own I've exposed relevant functions via the `_stream` classes. The only external dependency not exposed is `memcmp` in `bsdiff`. +This library generates patches that are not compatible with the original bsdiff +tool. The impompatibilities were motivated by the patching needs for the game +AirMech <https://www.carbongames.com> and the following requirements: + +* Eliminate/minimize any seek operations when applying patches +* Eliminate any required disk I/O and support embedded streams +* Ability to easily embed the routines as a library instead of an external binary +* Compile+run on all platforms we use to build the game (Windows, Linux, NaCl, OSX) + Compiling --------- The libraries should compile warning free in any moderately recent version of |