Re: Noob asks: How to hack meld?

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 4 October 2015 at 08:11, Deft Developer <dev hymes name> wrote:
> I want to try hacking a feature in meld, but I don’t know anything about python infrastructure. In 
> particular, after I edit a *.py file,  I don’t know how to “build” ./bin/meld and run  in my local 
> development directory. I’m hoping that I don’t have to read through all of the distutils documentation :)

There's no build step! You can just run bin/meld from your local
checkout and that will (somewhat magically) grab all its resources
including code from the checkout.

> My goal is to add an option to NOT recurse into  sub-directories, thereby improving performance and 
> preventing crashes when comparing large deep directories.

Cool, but just FYI that's not a patch that's likely to automatically
get accepted (though it's also not impossible). Any additional
preference generally has to meet a high bar in order to get in,
particularly when it's a "unbreak my use case" kind of patch that is
likely to have to be supported indefinitely. Also, best I know there's
no open crashers, etc. for deep folder comparisons.

And I'm hitting broken-record-state at this point, but this might
again be a use case for having a plugin infrastructure.

cheers,
Kai