[Toybox] New diff.c

[enh]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 1:35 AM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On 8/8/22 10:30, enh wrote:
> >> Anyway, the attached is still buggy and incomplete, but it gives the
> general
> >> idea. If this ACTUALLY pending code this would be at least my third
> checkin of
> >> the new plumbing, but since people are building and using stuff out of
> pending I
> >> can't replace it until the new stuff fully works, which means you don't
> get to
> >> see all the development history. So here's a checkpoint since I've been
> kinda
> >> quiet otherwise. :)
> >
> > no history is always a mistake that ends up being regretted...
>
> I know. That's why I posted a working checkpoint to the list.
>
> > just
> > check in as diff2, ndiff (new), tdiff (toybox), rdiff (rob) and then
> > rename or delete when you make your final decision?
>
> Except every time I've tried that the new one winds up getting abandoned,
> for
> reasons vaguely related to https://xkcd.com/927/ .
>

ah, you're worried that people will start to depend on it, and any bugs it
might have?

you could always have a non-master branch?


> > seems like the best of all worlds?
>
> Right now I'm trying to work out which near term todo items should go in
> this
> release. I've already held it a couple days past the 3 month schedule, and
> what
> I should probably just do is cut a checkpoint release and then get
> everything
> checked in for next time, but there's still low-hanging fruit. (That I've
> mostly
> not been working on because I've had the bit caught in my teeth on the diff
> redesign...)
>
> Rob
>
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