[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst

[Tuomas J. Lukka]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Branch:         
Changes by:     Tuomas J. Lukka <address@hidden>        03/11/03 03:20:41

Modified files:
        pointers       : article.rst 

Log message:
        Twids

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/pointers/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.84&tr2=1.85&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: manuscripts/pointers/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.84 
manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.85
--- manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.84       Sun Nov  2 15:06:53 2003
+++ manuscripts/pointers/article.rst    Mon Nov  3 03:20:40 2003
@@ -434,19 +434,17 @@
 such as Debian's ``apt`` or Windows update,
 allowing large bandwidth savings.
 
-An important feature of pointer records, due
+An important advantage of pointer records, due
 to the simple underlying block abstraction, is
 that it is possible to
-for example burn the new versions of packages
+burn the new versions of packages
 (and their pointers records) to a CD
 to take to a machine that is not connected
 to a network. Because the versioning model only
 uses the pointer blocks as data, the software upgrade
 should simply work out in such a case.
-
-XXX Onion ref?  versioning
-is also distributed - no central server needed
-for distributor
+This advantage is not shared by for example the 
+onion networks model XXX.
 
 
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