I recommend 1.7.5. It's the current dev release, and barring any major issues I'll release it essentially unchanged as 1.8 in the next few weeks.
There is no need to compile anything. You should be able to run meld directly from the directory you extract it to.
Kai
On Sep 6, 2013 6:43 AM, "Bruce McNamara" <Bruce McNamara intusurg com> wrote:
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> Apt-get says this version is up to date (I’m using 12.04 Ubuntu). Meldmerge.org says 1.6.1 is the latest stable and 1.7.4 is the Devel version. I’d rather not download source and build it unless that’s what’s recommended. What version do you recommend? Thanks,
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> - Bruce
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> From: Kai Willadsen [mailto:kai willadsen gmail com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 1:15 PM
> To: Bruce McNamara
> Cc: meld-list
> Subject: Re: Patch failed bug report
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> On Sep 6, 2013 6:11 AM, "Bruce McNamara" <Bruce McNamara intusurg com> wrote:
> >
> > Invoking 'patch' failed.
> >
> > Maybe you don't have 'GNU patch' installed,
> > or you use an untested version of Subversion.
> >
> > Please send email bug report to:
> > meld-list gnome org
> >
> > Containing the following information:
> >
> > - meld version: '1.5.3'
>
> Thanks, but this version of Meld is really much too old to support at this point. If you can reproduce the problem with something recent (1.7.5 is looking pretty good right now) then please do file a bug.
>
> Cheers,
> Kai
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