Patch Maker is a Free Windows program in the Other category, developed by Clickteam. The current version is 1.3b; you can download it safely from its official source with the download button above.
Need to create small and efficient updates/patches to your program?
The life of a software product is usually marked by the release of different
versions. One version differs from the previous one by a small number of
changes. Some sections of code in the executable files are different, new files
may be added, some even deleted. What the author of the product usually does is
provide a whole new version of the files either as a new reinstallable product
or just the modified files, compressed into an installer.
The above procedure is very wasteful though. For example, if a file of 1
megabyte has only had say 10 kilobytes altered inside it, then why create an
update patch that requires the full 1 megabyte? It would be far more efficient
if just the altered data was stored. This is the purpose of Patch Maker, as it
saves a huge amount of bytes by storing just the differences between files and
even compressing this data.
SHA-256: C3CCB37E060015BE6F8CB1593ABCA307363AC3678ABE116FAF5ADB4523F161F9
