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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?


From: Andrew Suffield
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 13:00:21 +0000
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 08:49:00AM +0100, Thomas Zander wrote:
> Since OOo will save some 5 different XML streams inside a zip file its 
> quite easy to do revision management on XML only streams once you have a 
> XMLDiff application in place. (which should be first priority)

Remember: diff is easy, it's a variation on the LCS problem. patch is
harder, because you're supposed to take advantage of context (it's
pretty stupid to write a patch tool for an unordered list that
emulates patch(1) rather than re-ordering the list as needed, for
example).

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