fully operational. I have performed a successful versioned update of the
client which went smooth like butter. Next, I need to wire up progress-bar
feedback during the verification and patching phases.
computes MD5 hashes of jar files to be properly agnostic of the metadata
in the jar file and the order in which the files appear so that a jar file
patched with JarDiff hashes to the same value as one created arbitrarily.
Basically, I just want to hash the contents of the jar file in a canonical
order instead of hashing the actual jar file.
an application from one version to another. We use jardiff because I could
find no free (Java) binary diff libraries that looked worth a damn. Once
we release the source to Getdown, I'm sure someone will get a wild hair
and implement one.
getdown.txt configuration file and then watch the system recover and
proceed by downloading a fresh copy, emitting but a mild mannered log
message in the process.
Michael Bayne