[Kdiff3-user] Fwd: Is this project still active?

[Joachim E. <joa...@gm...>]

Hi everybody interested in KDiff3,

I recently received the question if the project is still under active 
development?

Answer: Yes, but not as fast as I would like.

The project is not dead. I'm even working on bugfixes and new features 
currently. But this is a spare time project and feature requests are coming 
in much faster than I can implement them. Patches on the other hand are very 
seldom. 

One reason probably is, that there are many users under Windows
who couldn't participate in development because the Qt-library
version 3 wasn't available as open source by Trolltech. This has changed with 
Qt4 and my next version of KDiff3 will be published in two versions (one
based on Qt3 and and the other based on Qt4). 
 
If you have a patch, please send it. If it's a new feature, make sure it's 
also available on the GUI and test it well. I might reject half thought 
through implementations because of the amount of work that's left
for me. (e.g. many people use KDiff3 only for comparing two files and
don't consider merging or three files or directories.)

Please don't be too disappointed if your particulary needed features didn't 
make it into the next version. Probably available this autumn.

Cheers,
Joachim