Chris Umphress wrote:
On 1/17/06, DM Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
When Chris Umphress included the link
http://kohl.wikimedia.org/~avar/gpl3/wdiff.html
regarding the differences between GPL v2 and v3 (proposed) it got me thinking:
"Is there any open source software that can be used to create a visually pleasant
markup of the comparison of two verses?"
Does anyone know of any?
I don't care what language it is written in as it is the algorithm that is
important.
I found that link in a comment posted on Slashdot. Previously, I had
not heard of (or gone looking for) a tool to generate differences on a
word-by-word read-through. I believe this was the tool used:
http://wdiff.progiciels-bpi.ca/showfile.html?mode=archives
I haven't been able to compile it yet, but the source should have the algorithm.
Interesting. According to some documentation I read, it is a front end
to GNU's diff. It takes kind of a brute force approach, putting the two
inputs into temporary files with one word per line, running diff on that
and then re-assembling the output. Development on it has stopped in '94
at 0.5 with a beta release 0.5h in '99. Since diff is well defined and
well known, this makes sense as a starting place.
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