MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Developers, please implement an incremental update feature

usedtowork · 03-21-2011, 08:16 AM

While it's great that Calibre is such an active project, virtually every time I launch the application I'm told there's a new version available, which is a 50MB download. I'm pretty sure that only a tiny fraction of that 50MB is actually being updated between revisions, so it would be great if developers could implement an incremental update feature which treats each new update as a small patch instead of a whole new release. This can be achieved with absolutely no impact to the current code base if desired, as the patch management process can be entirely external to Calibre.

If any developers are interested I would be happy to advise as I helped develop such a system years ago for a client, using open-source code and tools such as bdiff and CVS. That said my coding days are long past and these days there may be whole soup-to-nuts patch management tools available in the open-source community.

Either way it would be a great way for Calibre devotees to keep up with all the newest features while cutting download bandwidth by 95% or more!

03-21-2011, 08:16 AM	#1
usedtowork Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: iPhone	Developers, please implement an incremental update feature While it's great that Calibre is such an active project, virtually every time I launch the application I'm told there's a new version available, which is a 50MB download. I'm pretty sure that only a tiny fraction of that 50MB is actually being updated between revisions, so it would be great if developers could implement an incremental update feature which treats each new update as a small patch instead of a whole new release. This can be achieved with absolutely no impact to the current code base if desired, as the patch management process can be entirely external to Calibre. If any developers are interested I would be happy to advise as I helped develop such a system years ago for a client, using open-source code and tools such as bdiff and CVS. That said my coding days are long past and these days there may be whole soup-to-nuts patch management tools available in the open-source community. Either way it would be a great way for Calibre devotees to keep up with all the newest features while cutting download bandwidth by 95% or more!