Re: [PATCH] mergetool--lib: specialize diff options for emerge and ecmerge

From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date: May 3, 2009, 20:34 UTC
Message-ID: <20090503203427.GA22440@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200905032112.31156.markus.heidelberg@web.de>

Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> wrote:

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> > 
> > On Linux, ecmerge is "ecmerge".
> > Macs are weird.  Windows--even worse.
> 
> And the ecmerge developers are even more worse or is there a reason to
> have different names for the binaries?

But of course :)

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> > The user-friendly thing is actually
> > "/Applications/...lots.of.stuff.../guimerge", and that's a lot more
> > platform-specific than just "guimerge".
> 
> Why is the whole path more user friendly, because of guimerge not being
> in PATH? Is the /Applications/... directory always the same for ecmerge

Yup.

> for each Mac user? But we don't care in other diff/merge tools about the
> exact location and I think we shouldn't begin it here.

Ditto.

> > What do you think?
> 
> Not sure, leaving it as is is still an option.

I agree. So the original patch for ecmerge + emerge should be good then. I still need to reroll the araxis patch after my bike ride later.

-- 
	David