[Kdiff3-user] tdiff3: text-based kdiff3 for large files

[Maurice v. d. P. <gri...@kf...>]

Hi everyone,

For some time I've been wanting to make a text-based user interface for
kdiff3, but after studying kdiff3's code and talking to Joachim Eibl
I've come to the conclusion that it would be too intrusive a change to
add this functionality to kdiff3.

That's why I've recently started working on a new text-based alternative
to kdiff3, called tdiff3.

In a nutshell this program will:
- have an ncurses user interface, allowing it to be used in a terminal
- use the same diff/alignment algorithm as kdiff3
- support merging of very large files without significant slowdown or
  running out of memory

This program is in a very early stage of development and is not yet
usable for diffing/merging.

Unlike kdiff3 this program is written in D, but this language should
feel very familiar to C++ programmers. I would welcome any questions, 
help or contributions from interested users or programmers. Take a look
at the code on github (https://github.com/Griffon26/tdiff3) and send me
a message either on or off this list.

I'm hoping that eventually some of the design choices made for this
program (large file support, external diff process) can be ported back
into kdiff3 as well.

Regards,
Maurice.

-- 
Maurice van der Pot

Kdiff3 developer   gri...@kf...   http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net