Re: [MiNT] Greek keyboard table

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 21:38 +0100, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> Helmut Karlowski wrote:
> >> Why not store the tables as they are? After all, there are RSC-files 
> >> in the  CVS.
> > 
> > Which is one of the reasons for no XaAES-update taking place ...
> 
> CVS has a special mode for binary files, there is no problem here.
> 
> For people who don't have write access to CVS (like you and me), the usual 
> procedure for submitting modifications is to make a "unified diff" with the 
> diff utility and to post it here.
> 
> Unfortunately diff is not designed to handle binary files (I may work - I 
> don't know). Such binary patches would probably suffer while being 
> transferred in ascii by email.
> 
> I don't know how binary patches are provided on other projects. But an 
> obvious solution would be to provide a patch for the text files, and the 
> whole binary files as attachments. Then the maintainer will just have to 
> apply your patch, put the binary files at the right place, and commit.
> 
> If our maintainers agree with this procedure - let's go.

Certainly do.

Alan.