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Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

| <jbe### [at] ifrancecom> wrote:
|> When I said "incremental patch", I didn't refer only to the
|>executable. There are tools to create a small patch file from a
|>directory tree and generate an executable for easy upgrade (for
|>example PatchWise Free: http://www.hanmen.com/ ).
|
|
| Yes, and I explicitly said that you would need the documentation
updates and
| the application and that the (mostly unchanged) scenes do not take
that much
| space.  I thought it would be obvious this implies that then the
overall
| size of such a patch would not be significantly less than the full
download
| as POV-Ray consists only of the application, the documentation and the
| scenes.
|
	I rather doubt that there were megabytes worth of changes in the
documentation for a release that only increments the last number in
the version string (in particular, the images, drawings and so on are
probably much the same and account for a lot of space). Since the
tools I refer to are able to keep only the differences for each file,
they should be able to get good results even though the documentation
is in a single file.

	I can't find 3.6.0 anymore so I can't run the test myself, but it
might be interesting to at least give it a try rather than dismissing
the idea out of hand...

		Jerome

PS: btw, guess what's the biggest directory in the installation? I
know, it compresses extremely well and so it's not much to download,
but still I find it ironic...

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