On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, John Levon wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:55:58PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> 
> > On one hand, IMHO, if released now, 1.4.0 wouldn't bring that much to 
> > the final user compared to 1.3.7 and it is much slower. As a user I will 
> > stick with 1.3.7.
> 
> It's worth remembering that one of the reasons that 1.4.0 is so much
> slower is because the code was treated like a wiki.

Hey, can you guys leave the wiki alone! It doesn't want to be involved in
this discussion ... ;-)

...

> It'd be much nicer if we had better review tools, I agree.

It's been a while, but for plain comparing of files I liked to use tkdiff.
Aren't there better tools available today?

What is it that is needed here, is it something that takes the patch,
applies to a temporary copy of the correct source file and then compares
them?  Maybe there's an Emacs mode for this?

/Christian

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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr


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