[ITP] wdiff 0.5 -- Compare two files word by word

[ITP] wdiff 0.5 -- Compare two files word by word

[Jari Aalto]

Included in Debian

  http://packages.debian.org/stable/text/wdiff

Jari

sdesc: "Compare two files word by word"
ldesc: "Find word deleted or added from the first file to make the second. A
word is defined as anything between whitespace. It works by creating
two temporary files, one word per line, and the executes 'diff' on
these fields. It collects the 'diff' output and uses it to produce a
nicer display of word differences between the original files."
category: Utils
requires: cygwin

a) manual

  wget        \
    http://cygwin.cante.net/wdiff/wdiff-0.5-1.tar.bz2 \
    http://cygwin.cante.net/wdiff/wdiff-0.5-1-src.tar.bz2 \
    http://cygwin.cante.net/wdiff/setup.hint

b) automated: get.sh displays further instructions

  gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 955A92D8

  mkdir wdiff ; cd wdiff
  rm -f get.sh get.sh.sig
  wget    http://cygwin.cante.net/wdiff/get.sh \
          http://cygwin.cante.net/wdiff/get.sh.sig &&
  gpg --verify get.sh.sig get.sh &&
  sh get.sh

[GTG] wdiff 0.5 -- Compare two files word by word

[Eric Blake]

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According to Jari Aalto (Cygwin-bug#20070822T0855) on 8/22/2007 3:33 AM:
> Included in Debian
> 
>   http://packages.debian.org/stable/text/wdiff
> 
> Jari
> 
> sdesc: "Compare two files word by word"
> 
>   wget        \
>     http://cygwin.cante.net/wdiff/wdiff-0.5-1.tar.bz2 \
>     http://cygwin.cante.net/wdiff/wdiff-0.5-1-src.tar.bz2 \
>     http://cygwin.cante.net/wdiff/setup.hint
> 

Setup.hint should depend on diffutils, since wdiff does
execvp("/bin/diff").  But other than that, the packaging looked okay, so I
went ahead and uploaded it and corrected the setup.hint.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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Re: [GTG] wdiff 0.5 -- Compare two files word by word

[Jari Aalto]

Eric Blake <ebb9-PGZyUNKar/Q@public.gmane.org> writes:
> Setup.hint should depend on diffutils, since wdiff does
> execvp("/bin/diff").  But other than that, the packaging looked okay, so I
> went ahead and uploaded it and corrected the setup.hint.

Good call. I'll include it in 0.6

Jari