Trestkon
16th April 2009 19:32 UTC

nsispatchgen - Patching multiple old versions
I used nsispatchgen for our last patch and it made the entire process incredibly simple, especially considering I'm patching nearly 100 different files.

Is it at all possible to use nsispatchgen to patch multiple old versions? ie: Version 1.0.2 would be compatible with both 1.0.0 and 1.0.1. I know this can be done manually with VPatch, but it's rather time consuming to have to sort through all the files manually.

Thanks!

Trestkon
20th April 2009 19:30 UTC

No ideas on this?

After looking at the readme's again, I *think* that if I just run nsispatchgen for each previous version (ie: v1 to v3 and v2 to v3) it should merge both the changes into the same patch file, but I'm not entirely sure.

pengyou
21st April 2009 12:07 UTC

nsisPatchGen uses the VPatch genpat.exe utility to generate patch files. I have not used nsisPatchGen but I have used Vpatch's genpat.exe utility to generate a single patch that is able to do the following:

update v1 to v4
update v2 to v4
update v3 to v4