Bug#880089: ITP: node-fast-diff -- Fast Javascript text diff

[Yash Bansal <bansaly26@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp

Severity: wishlist

Owner: Yash Agarwal <bansaly26@gmail.com>

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* Package name    : node-fast-diff

  Version         : 1.1.2

  Upstream Author : Jason Chen <jhchen7@gmail.com>

* URL             : https://github.com/jhchen/fast-diff#readme

* License         : Apache-2.0

  Programming Lang: _javascript_

  Description     : Fast _javascript_ text diff

 .

 A simplified import of the excellent diff-match-patch library

 by Neil Fraser into the Node.js environment. The match and patch parts

 are removed, as well as all the extra diff options. What remains is

 incredibly fast diffing between two strings.

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 The diff function is an implementation of "An O(ND) Difference Algorithm

 and its Variations" (Myers, 1986) with the suggested divide and conquer

 strategy along with several optimizations. 

 .

 Node.js is an event-based server-side _javascript_ engine.

 .

 It is a simplified import of diff-match-patch library which makes diffing

 between two strings incredibly fast.

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 I would like to maintain this package as part of the _javascript_ packaging

 team. Praveen has offered to sponsor this package.