Re: Integrating wdiff into diff

[Dan Hipschman]

On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 06:14:41PM -0400, Denver Gingerich wrote:
> I am interested in integrating wdiff into the diff tools, but before I
> start work on this, it would be good to know whether some work has
> already been done.  It looks like Paul Eggert was planning on working
> on this 
> (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2001-06/msg00076.html),
> but it doesn't look like diff has any of wdiff's functionality yet.
> Has anyone started on integrating wdiff into diff?  If not, is there a
> good reason why people have chosen not to work on it (ie. everyone
> uses graphical diff tools these days, few people diff files with long
> lines, etc.)?

I think what Dr. Eggert meant was that he just wanted to move the wdiff
program into the diffutils project.  I don't think he intended to get
rid of wdiff and move its functionality into diff, as it seems you're
wanting to do.