Comments on: [IPB 2.1] Template Set Differences

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:10:23 +0000

This is probably the best example of a difference example that I’ve seen. There has always been a two-pane view of both documents with empty lines with red/green font. Thanks for the information on where you found a script to do this, I’ve been trying to root around google results and nothing was ever good enough.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:27:25 +0000

LGPL is much less restrictive and as long as the whole of the work is just linked to and not incorporated into the core program then the core program does not have to be released as GPL.

“. A program that contains no derivative of any portion of the
Library, but is designed to work with the Library by being compiled or
linked with it, is called a “work that uses the Library”. Such a
work, in isolation, is not a derivative work of the Library, and
therefore falls outside the scope of this License.”

By: Timothy Dorr

Timothy Dorr — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 03:27:15 +0000

Oh, of course. I wasn’t suggesting something *that* simple, but just pointing out it shouldn’t be that hard to do.

Of course, Text_Diff’s done all the work, so why bother! Just make sure you follow that LGPL to a T. We don’t want to get into another phpMyAdmin fiasco again :S

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:47:10 +0000

Tim Dorr,

That diff class looks too simplistic and has hard limitations (will only look 10 lines for a match), etc.

I’ve just included the LGPL Pear:Text-Diff class in the ips_kernel folder and we’ll just use that. The LGPL differs as it allows dynamic or static linking of libraries without the need for the entire software to be GPL.

In the fullness of time, I’ll write my own DIFF engine.

By: Darken

Darken — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:24:01 +0000

Oh! Good idea!!

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 21:03:58 +0000

Nice. Looking good, Matt.

By: Kennedy

Kennedy — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:32:22 +0000

Wicked!

By: Wolfie

Wolfie — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 05:10:51 +0000

Could it also be made to create a “recommended changes/updates” XML file? That would make updating/upgrading skins from v2.0.x to v2.1.x a snap.

And it is an excellant idea Matt. You would think of it.

By: Cybertimber2005

Cybertimber2005 — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 00:25:19 +0000

Ok… so basically it can tell you the diffrences between a custom edited 2.0.x skin and a 2.1.0?

By: Timothy Dorr

Timothy Dorr — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 05:22:54 +0000

Oh, that’s no fun

What about Windows users, then? I think you’ll have to write the diff engine in PHP, to be honest. Of course, it doesn’t look that hard if you do it on a line-by-line basis: http://www.holomind.de/phpnet/diff.src.php