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

[Vladan B. <vb...@ie...>]

Joachim Eibl wrote:
> 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. 

Hi,
I too have some feature requests for you :-)

But first, let me say that I rally appreciate the work you have done on 
kdiff3. It is the best 3-way merge tool around and it has been a real 
time saver for me.

Here are a few features that would be very useful to me:

1) Postprocessor commands:
Right now it's possible to pre-process files before merging them (with a 
warning), but it's impossible to post-process the result.
Specifically I often have to merge Delphi 4 sources, which uses binary 
files for describing forms (.dfm files). These files can be converted 
to/from text with external tools, but it would be nice if I could 
convert them to text before merging and back to binary when writing the 
result.

2) Make the 'Goto next delta' button configurable when doing a 3-way 
merge of a file. I would like to be able to skip certain types of 
differences.
For example, I often have to merge differences between A and B into C. 
In this case I am not interested in the deltas where A and B are equal 
and C is different (where A and B have purple color).

3) The possibility to manually align the lines. Sometimes the line 
matching algorithm aligns the files badly at certain points. I would 
like to be able to tell it which lines should be aligned.

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

I won't. If the features were *that* important, I would have implemented 
them myself ;-)

Keep up the good work and thanks again.

-- 
Vladan Bato
vb...@ie...