Jeremy wrote: > I've blogged about it before but I really like BeyondCompare. > The upcoming version 3 sounds very promising on the merge > front and 3 way compares. > > I expect both have trials.
Yes, for a two-way tool Beyond Compare is really nice and we use it in-house too by our support staff with normal diff and compare stuff. But it's lack of powerful three-way compare/merge support ruled it out for my use with Perforce when I was comparing it and Araxis. It sounds like Beyond Compare may finally get some good 3-way support, I seem to remember the developer has been talking about it for a while. (Beyond Compare is written in Delphi I believe). It might be good, but then Araxis has been doing the 3-way dance for some time and it shows. There was another 3-way tool (the name escapes me - it was 5 or so years ago :-) I saw that looked powerful, but it was written in Java to be portable and the UI (Swing I think) was pretty clunky and had weak keyboard handling, so Araxis being Win32 native won the day. I seem to remember it comes bundled with SurroundSCM as their merge tool. Perforce hasn't focussed on shipping a best of breed merge/compare tools - which is not to say their tool doesn't work - it's just not a primary focus. Instead, they tend to focus on their knitting (the core SCM engine) and let the market and customer decide which 3rd party tools they prefer. TTFN, Paul. _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
