Bug#959834: Fwd: RFP: diffutils-java -- Implementation of general operations with diff files

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

Control: retitle 959834 RFP: diffutils-java -- Implementation of general operations with diff files

On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 07:34:21PM +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote:
> On 06/05/2020 19:31, Andrej Shadura wrote:
> > On 06/05/2020 19:25, Andrej Shadura wrote:
> >> I don’t think we need the original code since it’s much older and the
> >> fork has seen quite some development. They are backwards-compatible
> >> except that the Maven coordinates are different. Basically, we only need
> >> to patch Bazel to use it.
> > 
> > Correction: they’re not fully compatible, but API difference is not big
> > and porting is quite straight-forward.
> 
> Right, I now remember one more reason why I chose the fork but not the
> original. There was a licensing issue around the diff algo
> implementation in the original. I don’t remember the details, but the
> fork has completely reimplemented it, thus working it around.

Thanks Andrej.

Moving it back to RFP for now.

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Regards
Sudip