[Adium-devl] Nightly Builds?

[Augie Fackler]

IIRC schwa from #macsb was looking into doing this using zsync - maybe  
he still has some code around?

(Advantage of zsync was that it would allow arbitrary updates (eg 1.2- 
 >1.3 without intermediate diffs) and could be used to repair a  
damaged Adium)

On Feb 14, 2008, at 2:16 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:

> Exactly what I want to hear.
>
> Partial updating is coming a long, I really hope I can have the patch
> and diff tools for it finished by Friday. I've been talking to Andy
> about the changes to Sparkle itself and have taken a look at what's
> necessary and it does not seem too bad.
>
> I definitely think we should do partial updates before doing
> nightlies. Let's say we have 1000 people updating to the latest
> nightly every day, that gives us:
>
> 21MB/download * 1000 downloads/day * 31 days/month
>
> = 635.742188 gigabytes/month
>
> Partial updates seem like a definite must before proceeding to me.
> Anyone disagree?
>
> -Colin
>
> On Feb 14, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>
>> Having a nightly build available is definitely a good thing. I don't
>> think we should advertise it in incredibly public space (e.g.  
>> Anywhere
>> seen directly from adiumx.com) but do think that an IRC topic and a
>> permalink to which we can point folks would both be great for
>> encouraging testing by active bug reporters. Does that seem  
>> reasonable
>> to you?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Evan
>>
>> On Feb 13, 2008, at 7:19 PM, Colin Barrett <timber at lava.net> wrote:
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