[dev] The Text_Diff package

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> I've been doing some cleanup and updates to the Text_Diff package and
> want to run a few things by the community and developers
>
> 1. PHP 4 compatibility
>
> I propose that we get the package up to a 1.0 stable release that
> works with PHP 4, and then leave that code (perhaps as a branch) and
> make the PHP 5 version Horde_Text_Diff. That version would work with
> Horde 4 and be released through our channel server for PHP 5, and
> compatible with PEAR2 PHP 5-only packages.

Sounds good.

> 2. Backwards compatibility
>
> It'd be great to fix the bad class/file names of Text_MappedDiff and
> Text_Diff3. Right now I've added the correct class/file names to CVS
> but haven't removed the old ones. I think since package is marked beta
> I can just fix it, and bump the API revision number, and it'll be
> fine. Any objections to that? Any better names for the
> previously-named Text_Diff3 than Text_Diff_ThreeWay?

I know that a few people use it, including PEAR itself, because it has  
been quite stable for some time, even though it's marked beta. Thus I  
would rather not change the API at this point.

Jan.

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