BinPatch is designed to be the solution to all patching problems you may ever have. We invented several features with "Auto-" prefixes to make the creation process as simple as can be. Basically all you do is to select the start states and the end state and there you are. But there is much more in BinPatch and you will want to go through this chapter to learn about the many choices your have. Our BinPatch implementation is designed to provide easy use, but yet holds all the power you may want. BinPatch may e.g. lookup patch targets from your systems registry, it will automatically find matching files even if you renamed them and it will handle removed files, etc. with the ease of just doing it and power of allowing you to fine grain if required at the same time.
With all automatisms working for you, still you control the specialized aspects of the BinPatch behavior. We strongly recommend reading this chapter at least by browsing the titles, so you know of all the features BinPatch bares. There are real treasures like automatically creating a zip file with your patch and signing it via pgp or to control the backup process or the call of custom scripts in various stages of the patch applying process.