[pmwiki-users] phpdiff not working?
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at pobox.com
Mon Mar 14 11:35:32 CST 2005
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 08:43:06AM -0800, dan mcmullen wrote:
> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> >As distributed, PmWiki doesn't support simultaneous edits under Windows
> >(because Windows doesn't supply the diff3 program that PmWiki requires
> >to perform the merge).
>
> what is phpdiff.php then?
phpdiff.php performs the page history function -- i.e., the computing
of the differences from one version to the next. Merging is a step up
from that -- it takes two sets of diffs (produced by phpdiff.php) and
figures out how to combine them together in an intelligent way.
> i'll work on this. currently, i'm using a PmWiki for a school project
> which runs out of another person's web service and seems to use windoze web
> servers. convincing them to convince their ISP to install diff3 seems
> problematic. a pure PHP solution would be good.
I agree -- I'm just not happy enough with the cookbook's PHP diff3 algorithm
to include it in the core distribution (it seems much more complex than
what we need), and I haven't had time or need to figure out how diff3
algorithms works to be able to implement one that I would like.
Pm
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