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How to patch a program
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Lets say I have a program that is not in any way connected to the Internet. I post it for for downloading, but I know that I will need to update it fairly often. I don't want people to have to redownload the entire program, I just want to send out a patch to update it. How can I do this?
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Re: How to patch a program
I think the minimal level that changes could be made would be to the replace a class file. If in a jar file, That would require a program to unpack, replace and rebuild a jar file. Updating could be a problem though. If signed, that would be lost. Replacing the whole jar file might be safer.
Maybe people in the real world have some techniques they use.
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