Re: Type-specific diff & patch

On 5/2/06, Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote:
> Matteo Settenvini <[email protected]> writes:
> >      b) a plugin system; maybe Arch 2 should become little more than a
> > specification and a framework, in the sense that gstreamer is; there
> > could be plugins for a pletora of things, ranging from merging
> > algorithms to supported media / transport protocols; and maybe even a
> > plugin for special treatment of certain mime-types -- for example,
> > imagine a .odt OpenOffice.org document: it's mostly a bunch of XML files
> > compressed in a unique archive. Instead of doing a binary diff of it,
> > knowing its ``semantic'' we could diff just its plain-text contents
>
> File-specific diff would be feasible in Arch 1, and it'd be nice to do
> it (I meant to give it a try but haven't had time so far).
>

Patches on this very welcome!

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Andy Tai, [email protected]