Added wdiff-bugs. The previous messages in this thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2008-06/msg00264.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2008-06/msg00271.html
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> You probably already thought about it, but why not use `wdiff' for that? > > I think before you can recommend wdiff, > 1) there should be a release on ftp.gnu.org that does not dump core at > every invocation, (*) Yes, there should and there will be one soon (see below). But wdiff as it appears in the packages on most GNU/Linux distributions (with patches to fix these sorts of things) works quite well. The 13+ years since the release of wdiff 0.5 has provided ample time for these patches to become stable. > 2) the program should support colorized output like we know it from webcvs > and others. By "the program", do you mean wdiff or some web-based diff viewer? It would seem strange for wdiff to provide colorized output since diff doesn't even do that; colorized diffs are produced by other tools. But if you can make a convincing case for colorized output in wdiff, perhaps I could add it. Though there are lots of other fixes for wdiff's output that would take priority, such as providing context and line/word numbers (like "diff -u"). > (*) Yes I know there is a release wdiff-0.5.90 that works better than that, > but it's not on ftp.gnu.org. wdiff 0.5.93 is now available (at http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/wdiff/), which includes a plethora of fixes since 0.5.90. The plan is to release 0.6 within the next month. Denver
