rlee287 / pyautoupdate

An auto-update API for Python programs. ARCHIVED: The update mechanism here contains no guarantees about code integrity. You may want to look at TUF (The Update Framework) instead.
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Enable differential patching #36

Open rlee287 opened 6 years ago

rlee287 commented 6 years ago

Feature Request

Description of feature: Store only the differences between old and new versions. Use some kind of patcher to patch the relevant differences.

Rationale for feature: Differential patching would reduce download times and enable having smaller archives stored on the update server.