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From: Joachim E. <joa...@gm...> - 2005-09-25 08:14:18
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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 |