unifying libdiff2

[Aleix Pol]

Hi Jeremy,
What's the status on this one?

Aleix

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 5:35 PM, David Nolden <
david.nolden.kdevelop at art-master.de> wrote:

> I was the one who once forked libdiff2 many years ago (probably around
> 2007 or so), and it was mainly for comfort reasons, because libdiff2
> would have needed a quite big refactoring to be nicely usable by both
> Kompare and KDevelop:
> * libdiff2 was a static library living in a subdirectory of the at
> that time unmaintained kde4 kompare port
> * libdiff2 contained a lot of UI code, while we were only interested
> in the 'model' code (that's why I commented out quite a bit of stuff)
>
> While it is nice to share some code, I'm also not in favor of adding
> huge dependencies like 'whole kdesk'.
>
> Having the code shared can also make life significantly harder
> regarding changes in the library: How should the correct versions of
> the library and the application be synced together? We experience this
> again and again through the split between kate and kdevelop. Therefore
> we should ask the question whether KDevelop and Kompare really have so
> much in common, that they will actually _profit_ from each others
> potential future improvements in a shared libdiff2. The word 'fork' is
> often interpreted more evil than it actually is. ;-)
>
> Greetings, David
>
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