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Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 18:54:39 -0500
From: Geoff Howard <ghoward@apache.org>
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Subject: jrcs/diff status
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I just discovered the jrcs project in a renewed search for a diff 
algorithm implementation compatible with the ASF license.

I searched the archives for an indication if this is a living project or 
not and read the trail from september following the proposal to remove 
it from Commons/Jakarta and thought I perceived at least a lazy 
consensus to increase the project visibility instead of scrubbing it.  I 
saw some cvs activity after that, and a post on users which seemed to 
confirm that direction.

But now I see that jrcs is gone from the Commons navigation, apparently 
removed in this commit with no further explanation:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=jakarta-commons-dev&m=107020830121776&w=2

Was this a mistake which went unnoticed or did something happen off list?

I'm interested particularly in the diff portion of the project and have 
written a quick first stab at an Ant task based on it because I need it 
for work.  I'd like to see about contributing it, some utility code to 
make usage simpler, and possibly developing some supporting code for 
Cocoon (where I'm active) such as a generator which creates an xml 
representation of a diff between files, etc.  The rcs code could prove 
useful elsewhere in the Cocoon project which has struggled trying to 
provide some cvs support without a cvs project which isn't GPL'd.

TIA,
Geoff


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