Re: Meld 1.8.1 released

[Angel Ezquerra <angel ezquerra gmail com>]

The flag idea may be ok. Could it be possible to start python.exe with
a hidden console?

Cheers,

Angel


On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Keegan Witt <keeganwitt gmail com> wrote:
> I think it's because they're not Python apps.  The problem is if you call
> Meld with pythonw.exe (which hides the command prompt), it doesn't wait for
> the process to end before returning an exit code.  The only way I've seen to
> get an exit code is by calling with python.exe, which will create a command
> prompt window.  Another idea I had to avoid having 2 wrappers is to have the
> first argument to the wrapper be some special maker to tell it to use
> python.exe (and let the default be pythonw.exe), and have it eat that arg
> before starting Meld with the rest of the args.  Opinions?
>
> -Keegan
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Angel Ezquerra <angel ezquerra gmail com>
> wrote:
> > That is a good point, but personally I would hate even more to get a
> > command prompt every time I open the diff tool.
> >
> > Version Control Tools use diff such as meld for two things: diffing
> > and merging. I don't think that tools usually need the exit code when
> > using meld for diffing. For merging it would be nice to get the exit
> > code though. Currently TortoiseHg will simply ask the user if the
> > merge was successful, but with other tools this is not necessary.
> >
> > I don't quite understand why other tools (e.g. KDiff3, WinMerge) do
> > not have this problem. These are GUI tools but they can keep
> > TortoiseHg (or whoever calls the tool) waiting for the exit code until
> > they are done, but they do not show a command prompt. Is this a
> > fundamental problem in how meld is wrapped on windows?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Angel
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Keegan Witt <keeganwitt gmail com> wrote:
> > > That's true, but wouldn't you want tools like that to be aware of when
> > > the
> > > merging process has ended?  If I call pythonw, it will appear to the
> > > tool
> > > calling the process that the process ended immediately.  This also means
> > > the
> > > status code returned by pythonw is worthless since it will always be 0.
> > > Isn't that an issue for these tools as well?  Sorry for my ignorance, I
> > > don't use Meld for that.
> > >
> > > I agree that it stinks that a separate window will now be opened, but
> > > otherwise the calling process loses information about the status of the
> > > process it called.  I was thinking too of how this might be in a script
> > > that
> > > helps a user do some larger workflow.  If it exits immediately (and/or
> > > with
> > > a worthless status code), the script wouldn't know whether to proceed or
> > > not
> > > with the next steps.
> > >
> > > -Keegan
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Angel Ezquerra
> > > <angel ezquerra gmail com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > personally I think this change (calling python.exe rather than
> > > > pythonw.exe) will be a serious regression when using meld with a tool
> > > > such as TortoiseHg. TortoiseHg _always_ calls meld with parameters.
> > > > This means that every time that you would use meld to diff or merge
> > > > files from TortoiseHg (or any similar tool) you'd see a prompt window
> > > > appear.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Angel
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Keegan Witt <keeganwitt gmail com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Sorry for the delay.  Someone reported that GTK wouldn't load for him
> > > > > and I
> > > > > was hoping to track that down why before updating the binaries.  I
> > > > > haven't
> > > > > figured it out (it doesn't help that I've not been able to recreate
> > > > > the
> > > > > issue), but I've decided to go ahead and release new ones in the mean
> > > > > time.
> > > > > Has anyone else experienced this issue?  Have an suggestions?  I've
> > > > > already
> > > > > tried having him clear his path before calling the Python from
> > > > > Portable
> > > > > Python with the absolute paths (which didn't help), though he is able
> > > > > to
> > > > > run
> > > > > the GTK demo.
> > > > >
> > > > > Besides the update to 1.8.1, I also now call python.exe instead of
> > > > > pythonw.exe when calling meld.exe with parameters.  This allows you
> > > > > to
> > > > > call
> > > > > Meld from the commandline without pythonw exiting right away (the
> > > > > only
> > > > > downside being that a dialog box for python appears in that case --
> > > > > not
> > > > > sure
> > > > > there's really a way around this).  When calling without parameters
> > > > > (for
> > > > > example from shortcuts), it continues to call pythonw.  The issue
> > > > > list
> > > > > for
> > > > > this installer release can be seen here.
> > > > >
> > > > > -Keegan
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Kai Willadsen
> > > > > <kai willadsen gmail com>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > Meld 1.8.1 has been released.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >   Fixes:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >     * Add AppData file (Kai Willadsen)
> > > > > >     * Change order of version control selection for CVS and old SVN
> > > > > > (Kai
> > > > > >       Willadsen)
> > > > > >     * Fix escaped markup in folder comparisons (Kai Willadsen)
> > > > > >
> > > > > >   Translations:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >     * Daniel Mustieles (es)
> > > > > >     * Enrico Nicoletto (pt_BR)
> > > > > >     * Gabor Kelemen (hu)
> > > > > >     * Marek Černocký (cs)
> > > > > >     * Milo Casagrande (it)
> > > > > >     * Piotr Drąg (pl)
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This release can be downloaded from:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://download.gnome.org/sources/meld/1.8/meld-1.8.1.tar.xz
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What is Meld?
> > > > > > -------------
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Meld is a visual diff and merge tool. It lets you compare two or
> > > > > > three
> > > > > > files,
> > > > > > and updates the comparisons while you edit them in-place. You can
> > > > > > also
> > > > > > compare
> > > > > > folders, launching comparisons of individual files as desired. Last
> > > > > > but
> > > > > > by
> > > > > > no
> > > > > > means least, Meld lets you work with your current changes in a wide
> > > > > > variety of
> > > > > > version control systems, including Git, Bazaar, Mercurial,
> > > > > > Subversion
> > > > > > and
> > > > > > CVS.
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