[TYPO3-dev] Proper DIFFs vs. Less work for Devs

[georg kuehnberger]

Mathias Schreiber [wmdb >] wrote:
> Martin Kutschker schrieb:
>> Mathias Schreiber [wmdb >] schrieb:
>>> So I'm going to need the pure PHP solution sooner or later anyways (what
>>> do the windows guys do anyways? Buy Macbooks? ;-))
>>
>> Why? The GNU Tools are available for Windows too. We could even make a
>> TER extension that ships the necessary binaries. This would even make
>> also the element history work out of the box.
> 
> The question is if it is possible to ship a "generic" patch.exe (or 
> similar, don't know) with the extension so I can use patch on *nix OSes 
> and the included patch.exe if the user runs windows.

It is possible as Masi mentioned above (patch.exe is part of the GNU Tools).

> I hope these work on the different windows versions (at least x64 could 
> cause problems).
see http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/

2000, XP and Vista do fine; did'nt test x64 though.
regards georg