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Originally Posted by frostschutz
Have you ever tried/considered porting this to the Kobo so the device would patch itself after placing patch files in the USB storage?
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At a certain point, I also considered doing this, but then decided against it on the following reasons:
I is a bit cumbersome to edit the patch files on the kobo. If one therefore has to involve a pc anyway, one can as well run the conversion script on it. But maybe many users do not need to modify the patch files. I do know know.
You can apply a patch only once. Otherwise you need a copy of the original file on the reader. If the script is supposed to make the back-up of the original file, it has to decide whether the current version on the reader is the original or already a patched version. Of course the user can still herself provide the back up. There would also be the possibility to back up the relevant files (if they are already known at that point) from the update package before the update package gets installed and deleted. But this seems to me also not very convenient from the perspective of the user.