On Tuesday 22 June 2010 07:54:28 Martin Pool wrote: > On 22 June 2010 16:50, Bjorn Tillenius <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 09:28:27AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > >> Some of you might have seen the cool Diffamation demo at UDS. The > >> code's now available, under a GPL-compatible licence. I don't know if > >> that means it's AGPL compatible. > > > > Can you summarize what Diffamation is, for those of us who didn't see > > the demo? A get a 500 error looking at the project page. > > It shows the changes through a series of text documents by animated > transitions from one version to the next. For instance if I insert a > word into a sentence, you will see the existing words slide apart to > make room as the new word appears. It would be a bit interesting to > do this within loggerhead, though I think their existing approach is > more tuned for prose than code, and I would not say it's the highest > priority for Canonical developers.
I was absolutely mesmerised by that demo, I thought it was fantastic. The bit that really caught my eye is how it does an order of magnitude better job than a plain diff at highlighting where the small changes are between revisions. Having that available in some of our diff machinery would be really useful. J _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
