Nieminen Mika wrote:
> 
>   This is one reason why modularity is a very good thing in programming...
>   Perhaps povray4 will be more modular and more easy to change.
> 

With the kind of changes I made, I doubt that any modularity would have
helped.  Someone whould have had to anticipate the photon patch (or
something _very_ similar) in order to make all the parts I needed
easily accessible.

-Nathan

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Ron,
Where can I find diff tools for Windows?  Do I need the Cygnus stuff (with
all of their shared libraries) or are there any stand-alone compiles?

-Nathan

Ron Parker wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 23:41:05 -0400, Nathan Kopp wrote:
> >P.S.  I am not experienced with the diff tools, so I do updates by hand.
> >Maybe someday I'll get around to learning how to use diff.
> 
> You really should.  The superpatch would never have happened without
> the help of diff, diff3, and some cobbled-together perl scripts.  I
> was even able to treat the 3.0 -> 3.1 transition in the official code
> as just another (huge) patch.

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Nathan Kopp wrote:

> Ron,
> Where can I find diff tools for Windows?  Do I need the Cygnus stuff (with
> all of their shared libraries) or are there any stand-alone compiles?
>
> -Nathan
>
> Ron Parker wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 23:41:05 -0400, Nathan Kopp wrote:
> > >P.S.  I am not experienced with the diff tools, so I do updates by hand.
> > >Maybe someday I'll get around to learning how to use diff.
> >
> > You really should.  The superpatch would never have happened without
> > the help of diff, diff3, and some cobbled-together perl scripts.  I
> > was even able to treat the 3.0 -> 3.1 transition in the official code
> > as just another (huge) patch.

You should get the Win32 version of RCS. That includes the diff and patch
stuff.

http://download.cyclic.com/pub/rcs/

BTW, if you're not using CVS you should look into at least using RCS for your
personal stuff. Quite handy.

--
"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.

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On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:40:34 -0400, Nathan Kopp wrote:
>Ron,
>Where can I find diff tools for Windows?  Do I need the Cygnus stuff (with
>all of their shared libraries) or are there any stand-alone compiles?

"All of their shared libraries" is really only one 400K dll, unless you're 
using tcl/tk.  That being said, there are other builds of the diff tools 
out there.  Check out the Virtually Unix page at 
http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/

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