On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, James Britt wrote:
If someone finds an error in the docs for, say, IO.sync, and they submit a
fix, how do current Ruby users update their ri data?
So, some way to automatically generate and distribute ri patches might be
nice. Or just generate the latest ri data files, dated with the change date.
Then automate the download of updates. Or something.
Could we do this with existing gems technology?
I've been looking around at HTTP stuff, with a view to speeding up
things like this. I see there's supposed to be a facility in http
for differencing --
RFC 3229 "Delta Encoding in HTTP"
and
RFC 3284 "The VCDIFF Generic Differencing and
Compression Data Format"
but I can find no free implementations of a vcdiff encoder, and
details about how to implement one are not supplied. I'm not sure
what servers, or clients for that matter, support it.
I throw this into the mix in case someone has already implemented
it!
James
-austin
Hugh
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