play@turing.UUCP (02/10/85)
I just received the 25th letter telling me not to post updates as simple diffs; people change the hack source themselves and have a lot of trouble applying the diffs to their modified sources. So next time it must be a context diff. But the previous simple diff already produced an article larger than notesfile can handle, and context diffs will be considerably larger. My question is: what do you prefer for version 1.0.2: a context diff (280K) or the entire source again (400K)? [For comparison: a simple diff between versions 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 is 75K.] I can also compactify the whole source mechanically, throwing away layout and comments and shortening the identifiers; this might reduce the whole thing to perhaps 150K. Reply by mail (and certainly not to net.sources).