On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Peter Arrenbrecht
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:52 AM, TK Soh <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Meld comes to mind. Though:
>
>  http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00395.html

Looks like it's won't run on Windows yet.

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