Re: [Winmerge-development] [Winmerge-dev] Stable branch R2_12 created

[Kimmo V. <ki...@wi...>]

> This is long overdue branching as I've been waiting for some
> things to happen in trunk first. Namely the situation of
> Frhed/heksedit integration. As it now has become clear we
> can't include Frhed/heksedit in 2.12 stable branch (see
> the my posts in new developers forum)

I should clarify that dropping Frhed/heksedit from 2.12 was difficult decision. But the amount of work needed has surprised everybody involved. And this is kind of feature we simply cannot ship without things like good documentation.

Earlier we have added new features with hurry before the stable release. Which has caused incomplete features being in stable releases. And features that have never been finished after that. Frhed/heksedit will be included when it is ready for it. And the bar is now a lot higher than it was couple of years ago. Now there are millions of users.

Even the nature of integration is still a bit unclear. One idea I have is to simply not distribute heksedit with WinMerge. But use heksedit dll from Frhed distribution. This would simplify things quite a lot. And most importantly reduces duplicated work between the WinMerge and Frhed projects.

Regards,
Kimmo