Re: [gedit-list] Problem with diff plugin on Solaris

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron ireland sun com>]

Chema:

> > Since unified output is nice, it would be nice if the gedit configure script
> > could check whether the available diff is the GNU diffutils version of diff.
> 
> We need to fix this somehow. But the configure script does not solve the
> problem at all since most people will use binaries. Or there might be
> different versions of diff, or the diff might be installed after gedit..
> etc. etc.
> 
> I've replaced the -u with -c for this release althou I really like the
> unified format. I'll think about the long term solution.

I agree that a runtime check for Gnu diffutils would be ideal.  Unfortunately
I'm not sure how to effectively do such a check...but it would be a nice
solution.

Brian