annoying dependency on javaws.jar (which no longer even includes JarDiff, now
that lives in $JAVA_HOME/samples/jnlp/servlet/jardiff.jar). We had already
forked JarDiffPatcher, so this completes the circle. Now I can also directly
fix some of the annoying JarDiff bugs we were working around, which I'll do at
some point.
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.