From: David Aguilar Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 20:34:27 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] mergetool--lib: specialize diff options for emerge and ecmerge Message-ID: <20090503203427.GA22440@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200905032112.31156.markus.heidelberg@web.de> Markus Heidelberg wrote: > > > > 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 :) > > 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