Delta updates

[David Smith]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. <evan at adium.im>wrote:

>
> On Mar 28, 2010, at 1:31 PM, David Smith wrote:
>
> > Sparkle trunk now supports delta updates (Andy merged Mark Rowe's patch
> in, see WebKit nightlies for what this looks like). I bet we can save a TB
> or so of bandwidth on 1.4.1 if we get that set up :)
>
> Is Sparkle otherwise stable?  My main concern is a big Sparkle upgrade
> right as we push out a huge update (1.4); some unforeseen problem could be a
> huge headache.  On the other hand, if everything else is okay, we can get
> the new Sparkle in, continue to use the old update methods, test delta
> updating in a beta series, and start using it in the release series if
> successful.
>
> -Evan
>

A more conservative approach would be to put the new Sparkle in 1.5 and
begin updating the nightly build infrastructure to do diff updates. Once
we're satisfied it's safe, we could merge to 1.4.1, and do diff updates to
1.4.x

CCing Andy for input.

David
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