On Monday 31 August 2009, Raymond Toy wrote:
> Robert Dodier wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I can sympathize with Andre. Sometimes it's a hassle to deal with CVS
> (especially if you, like me, are behind a firewall that won't let you do
> anon CVS access). So having diff files are convenient. I used to do
> this with xemacs updates since getting the diffs was usually much
> smaller than grabbing the entire tarball for the new release. (I
> couldn't access xemacs CVS repo through the firewall. Now the xemacs
> has switched to hg, it's not a problem since hg can tunnel through http.)
>
> But I also understand this is a burden on someone who could be doing
> something else.
I used the command from Aleksej Saushev which worked for me.
But today there are so many cvs variants,
and as Ray said, it's also about convenience.
I don't want to check each time, what the correct syntax is.
And I don't want to first browse the CVS repository for the correct CVS tags.
Perhaps someone could update the download section of the maxima homepage
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/download.html
and add a small section "Obtaining patches from CVS"
mentioning the command which was given in Aleksej Saushev post as an example.
cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous:@maxima.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/maxima
rdiff -r version-5_19_1 -r version-5_19_2 maxima
Just my 2 cents
Andre