[Kdiff3-user] KDiff3-0.9.93 released

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

Hi KDiff3-Users,

After a very long wait finally KDiff3-0.9.93 is ready to download.

Here is the short ChangeLog.

Version 0.9.93 - 2008/01/06
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- Support for KDE4 (with much porting help from Valentin Rusu)
- Fix for diff_ext_for_kdiff3 (by Sergey Zorin)
- Win32-Installation: SendTo-integration fixed for Vista.
- Optional auto detection of line end style for saving.
- Option to close on ESC (default is off)

Although the list is very short, this is a very big step. The switch to KDE4 
implies switching to cmake as build system, testing almost all existing 
features, fixing tons of issues to avoid as many regressions as possible. The 
Qt4-version (without KDE4) is also much improved. This is especially relevant 
for Windows and Mac users.

Without the help of Valentin Rusu who volunteered to do the port of the build 
system and made the code compile again against KDE4-libs this wouldn't have 
happened. - Thanks a lot!

Still there remained many more details until this release was possible.
I decided to drop the Qt3/KDE3 version completely because this would have been 
a maintenance nightmare. Anybody who needs it can continue with 0.9.92, but 
except for few details (like Konqueror-context-menu) the KDE4-version also 
works with KDE3.

As a private note I must confess, that I don't have as much time anymore for 
KDiff3. It is foreseeable that improvements from my side will be possible at 
a rather very slow pace. So if you want a feature or bugfix it might not 
happen unless somebody volunteers to invest time to get it to work.
If you want to help: Now there exists a new free IDE "Qt Creator" from 
trolltech.com that runs on all platforms. It has much support for 
editing/compiling and debugging Qt4-programs.

I hope the porting-job (like Qt3 to Qt4 and KDE3 to KDE4) need never be 
repeated, because it's so much effort and you - the users - don't have much 
benefit for a very long time. I did it to provide a good basis for the 
future, and in the hope that it will be easier for others to help.

So have fun with the new version of KDiff3 and a happy new year 2009!
Joachim