On 8/31/09, andre maute <andre.maute at gmx.de> wrote:
> Couldn't someone (a script?) always upload a gzipped diff-file
> along the latest maxima-XX.YY.ZZ.tar.gz and it's predecessor?
You can already get exactly that information from CVS.
In a Maxima CVS sandbox,
cvs -z3 diff -u -r version-5_19_1 -r version-5_19_2
You can create the sandbox by
cvs -z3 -d $CVSROOT co maxima
where CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous at maxima.cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/maxima
I'm guessing what you want is to get the source code for a
particular version without downloading all of it. If so then you
can just
cvs -z3 up -dP -r <whatever-version>
in an existing sandbox.
The -zN option for cvs tells it to use gzip compression level N when
downloading stuff.
HTH
Robert Dodier