From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 4 15:46:10 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61C8C16A4CE; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 15:46:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc4-cdif3-6-1-cust116.cdif.cable.ntl.com [82.23.41.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE39543D1D; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 15:46:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.50 (FreeBSD)) id 1DITly-0001k8-B1; Mon, 04 Apr 2005 16:45:54 +0100 Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 16:45:54 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: John Baldwin Message-ID: <20050404154554.GG19136@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , John Baldwin , Max Laier , Dan Nelson , Garance A Drosihn , Colin Percival , lists@mhoerich.de, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org References: <424B3AAB.6090200@wadham.ox.ac.uk> <424DC747.4020604@wadham.ox.ac.uk> <200504020126.16738.max@love2party.net> <4880d4c8fa4f5a350a0072ab1574ecc9@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4880d4c8fa4f5a350a0072ab1574ecc9@FreeBSD.org> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: Ceri Davies cc: Dan Nelson cc: Colin Percival cc: lists@mhoerich.de cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org cc: Max Laier cc: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Adding bsdiff to the base system X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:46:10 -0000 --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 03:16:02PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: >=20 > On Apr 1, 2005, at 6:26 PM, Max Laier wrote: >=20 > >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"=20 > >>(or > >>more generally, files with lots of "byte-substitutions"), and which=20 > >>uses > >>"bytewise subtraction" as part of its encoding process... (I'm sure=20 > >>you > >>can think of other possible meanings of "bs", as well.) > > > >Though it's "*B*inary *S*mall diff" ... and I like that name! >=20 > Heh, that's what I thought the "bs" stood for at first as well given=20 > that that is bs{diff,patch}'s claim to fame. I am starting to think it's "BikeShed Diff" ;-) Ceri --=20 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCUWEyocfcwTS3JF8RAlK9AKCLzXNeRt9e0wxoeDYh1MIOYtYvWACdEUNZ Ef5eEMJVG7K/7zvPnIDZLoU= =SfLj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rwEMma7ioTxnRzrJ--