Hello folks, I've received unsolicited advice from a few users that they would prefer if we packaged TortoiseMerge in lieu of Kdiff3. This is a feasible choice as it is licensed under the GPL v2 and is available as a separate statically linked executable. It's even a bit smaller than Kdiff3. They seem to have similar feature sets. Kdiff3 probably has an edge in features while TortoiseMerge is probably easier on the eyes. TortoiseMerge is also _much_ more familiar for people moving from TCVS or TSVN.
Another reason I am considering this is the I've always felt a bit guilty packing Kdiff3.exe all alone in our installer without all of the other pieces one normally gets if you download and install it yourself: shell integration, help text, etc. Our version is also quite old (>2yr), since newer releases tripled in size I have chosen not to update it. If you would like to try TortoiseMerge, you can download it from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tortoisesvn/files/Tools/ Get the 1.6.4/TortoiseDiff-1.6.4.zip package. unzip it, then copy TortoiseMerge.exe into your system path (the TortoiseHg install directory is a handy place). If you have a recent unstable nightly build, all you have to do after that is select 'tortoisemerge' from the drop-down list for 'Visual Diff Command:' in the global settings tool (on the TortoiseHg tab) and save. I'm curious what others think. -- Steve Borho ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list Tortoisehg-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
