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Appreciate your comments. It does only take one well followed article for demand to increase massively though.
I done some further quick tests and if you might be able to do this on the zip files/contents rather than right back at SVN source. It wouldnt be as efficient but even a par2 based diff could save you 50%+ between builds and has the added advanatge of CRC checking the file.
The logic would be:
Builder does a par2create "set switches" XBMC-blah.zip
Uploads all the files
Update tool grabs the small par2
Par2verify smallpar2 inserting the cached older zip and parse output for missing block count.
Update tool grabs enough blocks then does a par2repair
This might be a step too far but its actually very simple logic.
For the end user they would see a considerable install speed differece. you also would not need to compress the zip files saving you some time there as well.
Ponder it
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Will do.
Just for those listening in I just got 80%+ match between two builds 2 SVN apart using this method.
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For all those wanting a more efficient update method, it is coming. I had a conversation with Kay.one about it. He has some pretty cool plans on implementing a file by file comparison/update method. This means you will only need to downloaded the updated files. It will also work even if you skip many builds between updates. Kay.one is currently in the process of re-building his development PC, so just give him some time. He is definitely working on it.
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Cool, I use this all the time for painless updating - thanks.
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was this ever solved
Win 7/64