Re: [viewvc-dev] Minimizing dependencies

Jens Peters wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just gave viewvc trunk a try and especially the pygments integration 
> is just very cool! Are you up to removing other dependencies as well? At 
> the moment ViewVC calls external programs for e.g. diff or compression. 

ViewVC no longer uses an external tool for compression -- that part I 
already took care of.

As for the diff stuff, I was just thinking about this situation the other 
day while trying to explore the intraline-diff support for the first time.

(Aside:  Last week was, I think, the first time I ever read the entire 
viewvc.conf.dist file top-to-bottom to see what options I was ignorant of 
and what looks like a candidate for some development love or flat removal.)

I haven't yet gotten deep into the diff research, though.  There are 
probably lots of folks that use options like hr_funout (which is 'diff -p') 
that I would suspect can't be mimicked easily with pure Python stuff.

Maybe this could be done optionally, like "if [utilities]/diff isn't set, 
we'll use Python's libraries to do as much as we can".  I dunno.

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
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