Bug 152711

Summary:	[Structure Compare] Provide compare editor for any zip based files, not just .zip and .jar
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Jörg von Frantzius <jfrantzius>
Component:	Compare	Assignee:	Platform-Compare-Inbox <platform-compare-inbox>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	markus.kell.r, oyvind.harboe
Version:	3.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Jörg von Frantzius

2006-08-03 04:39:08 EDT

When comparing two .jar files, the Compare editor nicely shows the differing files and their respective differences when selected. It would be nice if this feature would extend to any zip based files, e.g. OpenOffice *.odt files. 

It would then at least be possible to glean textual changes from the differences in the XML.

Comment 1 Michael Valenta

2006-08-10 14:30:49 EDT

I agree that this would be helpful. The problem is that the Compare plugin currently depends on structure creators (i.e. the interpretors of the file format) being declared by plugins (i.e. the Java plugins contribute the JAR structure creator). Allowing the user to pick the type would be a fair amount of work. I do't think we'll have time to look at it in 3.3.

Comment 2 Markus Keller

2007-06-11 10:25:38 EDT

*** Bug 109492 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:19:25 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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