Control: retitle 959834 RFP: diffutils-java -- Implementation of general operations with diff files
On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 07:34:21PM +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote: > On 06/05/2020 19:31, Andrej Shadura wrote: > > On 06/05/2020 19:25, Andrej Shadura wrote: > >> I don’t think we need the original code since it’s much older and the > >> fork has seen quite some development. They are backwards-compatible > >> except that the Maven coordinates are different. Basically, we only need > >> to patch Bazel to use it. > > > > Correction: they’re not fully compatible, but API difference is not big > > and porting is quite straight-forward. > > Right, I now remember one more reason why I chose the fork but not the > original. There was a licensing issue around the diff algo > implementation in the original. I don’t remember the details, but the > fork has completely reimplemented it, thus working it around. Thanks Andrej. Moving it back to RFP for now. -- Regards Sudip
