On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Steve Borho <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Douglas Philips <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On or about 2009 Jan 4, at 3:29 PM, Steve Borho wrote:
>> > The thgconfig dialog already has most of these smarts in it.  The
>> > drop-down box for ui.merge is seeded with the merge tools defined in
>> > your Mercurial.ini file(s) that pass the hg built-in detection
>> > tests.  So long as we include configuration for all those tools in
>> > the base installer, your favorite diff tool will show up in that
>> > drop-down list if it is installed.
>> >
>> > I want to repeat my initial sentiment, though.  I don't know that
>> > diffuse is sufficiently stable/complete to be able to function in
>> > this role, but I think it should be a long-term goal of TortoiseHG
>> > to find such a native tool.
>>
>> So you think that TortoiseHG should *ship with* its own "preferred
>> merge tool"?
>>
>> If so, is the problem with kdiff3 just one of packaging, or of it
>> being too unixy regardless of packaging?
>
> If kdiff3 were a python and GTK app, I think we would gladly use it as our
> built-in diff/merge tool.  Having a native tool is just more efficient, both
> at
> runtime and in the THG installer. A native tool's code could be reused by
> THG to make new dialogs (perhaps for the record extension).

I agree with Steve on this.

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