WinMerge 2011

Saturday, December 31, 2011

WinMerge 2011

Dan Rigby - WinMerge: Not Quite Dead Yet

"Every few months or so I go looking for another free diff tool that I like as much as WinMerge (usually in vain) since WM hasn’t released a new version in over 2 years. WinMerge 3, while having been in planning for almost as long, still hasn’t seen any real development traction.

Today however, I was surprised to stumble across a fork of the WinMerge 2 code base that seems to be in active development under the name of WinMerge 2011. There have been a couple of releases so far and the developer seems to be one of the WinMerge developers (Jochen Tucht) as they have commits in the official WinMerge SVN repository.

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WinMerge2011

The WinMerge 2011 series is a fork of the original WinMerge application published on SourceForge by Thingamahoochie Software. It is an escape from the complex situation (http://shortlinks.de/ce1j) that exists with respect to WinMerge 2.x. ATL/MFC dependencies have also been removed so as to enable zero-budget developers to build WinMerge from sources using Visual C++ Express editions.

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From the Readme;

WinMerge is an Open Source comparing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle. WinMerge can be used as an external differencing/merging tool or as a standalone application.

WinMerge has many helpful supporting features to make comparing, synchronising, and merging as easy and useful as possible. Several programming languages and other file formats are syntax-highlighted.

The nice thing about WinMerge 2011 (and WinMerge 2.x) is that it's OSS (C++)... I always appreciate the chance to look behind the curtain (if I so desire)