On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org> wrote: > On 28.01.2012 10:44, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> Johan Corveleyn wrote on Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:10:05 +0100: >>> Yes, it's an option. But it's a hassle. I'm investigating other options. >> Installing GNU diff requires deploying a precompiled .exe file and two >> .dll files into %PATH%. >> >> Implementing -F support in Subversion requires patching configure, >> patching the windows build, revving the relevant libsvn_diff APIs, >> waiting for the next minor release, and deploying it. >> >> Seems to me that the former is the path of least resistance. > > Especially for the 500.000 users of Subversion on Windows, compared to a > few hours for one developer. Not to mention the wonders of DLL hell and > the oh-so-standard Windows installer.
That was my thought as well. Though you're exaggerating just a bit :-) ... only a fraction of those 500.000 users will be interested in 'diff -F', and it'll be more than a few hours to get this into subversion, with the extra work on configure, build, ... (and testing those). It's a pity we don't have any regex functionality already in svn, or this would be a pretty quick win. I guess now it's not that clear cut: is it worth it to include an extra dependency just for the sake of this diff option? I'm not sure myself actually (I have little experience with all this). Still it would be a nice addition to the feature set, I think. -- Johan
