What is "deltification"?

[Eric <sp...@scoot.netis.com>]

Can someone please tell me what the heck "deltification" means?

I looked it up in dictionary.com and wikipedia.org and yahoo and google and 
dejanews and none of them have a definition... dictionary.com and 
wikipedia.org never heard of the word, and google only mentions it in 
Subversion contexts but doesn't yield a definition.

Thanks...


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Re: What is "deltification"?

[Eric <sp...@scoot.netis.com>]

At 11:18 AM 3/8/2007, Les Mikesell wrote:

<LM>>>>>deltification is the verbification of the term to mean computing, 
storing, transferring the differences between versions instead of complete 
copies, reconstructing the whole copies only when needed.<<<<<

Good morning, Lee.

Thanks for clearing that up.  Dictionary.com defines "deltAfication" (i.e. 
delta instead of delti) to mean approximately that... its definition is 
"The formation of a delta or of deltas".  I was wondering if deltification 
is subtly different from deltafication or just another. lesser-known way to 
spell the same thing.

Merriam Webster Online (www.m-w.com) defines "deltafication" as "we have a 
definition for you... pay us some money and we'll tell you what it is".  :-\


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Re: What is "deltification"?

[Les Mikesell <le...@gmail.com>]

Eric wrote:
> 
> Can someone please tell me what the heck "deltification" means?
> 
> I looked it up in dictionary.com and wikipedia.org and yahoo and google 
> and dejanews and none of them have a definition... dictionary.com and 
> wikipedia.org never heard of the word, and google only mentions it in 
> Subversion contexts but doesn't yield a definition.

Delta's are differences (a math term, I think). So deltification is the 
verbification of the term to mean computing, storing, transferring the 
differences between versions instead of complete copies, reconstructing 
the whole copies only when needed.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@gmail.com

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