Kdiff3 renovation

Michael Reeves reeves.87 at gmail.com
Mon May 20 22:16:56 BST 2019


Will do this Friday at the latest?

On Mon, May 20, 2019, 11:46 AM Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:

> Seems like there's two releases been made, congrats.
> https://download.kde.org/stable/kdiff3/
> There's been no announcement that I've seen, can you send one to the
> kde-apps-announce@ list?
> https://marc.info/?l=kde-announce-apps&r=1&b=201905&w=2
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 16:19, Michael Reeves <reeves.87 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Just a heads up kdiff3 is about to go through some major renovation.
>> Currently file processing is extremely in efficient. There are at least
>> three loops through the entirety of the data. Further more thee complete
>> copies are kept in memory. Changing this will require almost a complete
>> rewrite of the loading routines. These changes carry potential for breakage
>> in kdiff3's compassion routines. I will try to avoid this but this area of
>> kdiff3 is both complex and fragile. This is master only do to the extent of
>> changes required.
>>
>
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