Re: [photran-dev] file comparison feature

[Greg Watson <g.watson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David,

The normal way to do this would be to open a bug with severity "enhancement" against the "Compare" component in the "Platform" product of the "Eclipse" project (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi).

However, unless there's a very strong demand for such a feature, I doubt if anyone has the resources to work on it. It's worth a try though.

Regards,

Greg

On Aug 21, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Paterline, David L. (NF) wrote:

Hello -

 

I've fairly recently begun using the file comparison feature in Eclipse/Photran and think it is a very powerful and effective feature. As I am doing a lot of scientific computing, I am using the compare tool for output files, some of which can be very large. To minimize the differences, I would like to be able to specify a tolerance within which a numeric difference would be ignored (or simply highlighted, rather than being called out as a difference). Is this a function which seems to be of general interest to the developer/user community? How would I go about formally requesting such an enhancement?

 

If this is being addressed to the wrong mailing list, please let me know, and I apologize for that.

 

Thank you.

 

 

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David L. Paterline

Functional Lead, Core Computations

Core Engineering

 

Westinghouse Electric Company

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