Re: [MacPerl] OT: diff

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 2.24 -0500 2000.04.21, Matthew Langford wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Brian McNett wrote:
>> http://www.macinsearch.com/infomac2/development/gnu-diff-event-server.html
>
>Interesting.  I can't seem to find this on a _real_ Info-Mac site.  Is
>this often true of Macinsearch?
>
>Thanks for the answer.  Please understand that the following is not aimed
>at you.
>
>Warning: harsh late-night gripe about Macinsearch follows...
>
>First sign of a major design flaw:  these two sentences, directly
>connected.  "Download this file from one of 100 mirror sites.  This file
>may not be on every server."
>
>How exactly did decreasing my odds to one in a hundred help me out?  They
>could learn a good bit from CPAN's method of presenting a distributed
>archive.

Speaking of CPAN ... I use ToolServer/MPW/diff to produce patches to
distribute to others; however, Mark-Jason Dominus has a diff written in
perl that should work in MacPerl with minimal changes (if it requires any).

    http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Algorithm-Diff

The module works without change on MacPerl, according to the CPAN Testers
report, but the diff tool may require edits.  Also, the standalone version
from PPT:

    http://language.perl.com/ppt/src/diff/

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