On 09-01-2010 05:57, Steve Borho wrote: > 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.
We would need to continue packaging kdiff3 here at work, since we can't risk switching to a new tool. Also, it would be very important to me that the tool is _fully_ keyboard controllable like kdiff3, since we merge a lot of files often. Something like Araxis merge and similar is next to useless due to its poor keyboard support. > 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. We actually ship the newest kdiff3 new, but we do our own build so we can build against MSVC90 instead of using mingw. In that way, we can save a little space since we demand VC90 redist to be installed. The new kdiff3 has only few differences, but some of them nice. Still generally quite ugly though :-p > If you would like to try TortoiseMerge, you can download it from here: I'll check it out :-) /Sune ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
