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18 :     <td WIDTH="98%"><b>Purpose</b>
19 : oliviert 1.4 <p>The Distribution Diff Tool is a command line tool which compares two Eclipse based
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21 : oliviert 1.4 the structure of class files, but does not compare resources (.properties, .gif, .jpg files etc.).
22 :     This gives the user an idea of what changed between two builds, without having to wade through source changes.
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30 :     <td WIDTH="98%"><b>What's new</b>
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32 :     <li>Method body comparision (thanks to Olivier Thomann!)</li>
33 :     <li>Exported plugin & fragment support, the tool now finds fragments and exported plugins</li>
34 :     <li>Output is now xml</li>
35 :     <li>An ant script to run the whole process</li>
36 :     <li>Filtering support using xsl transforms</li>
37 :     <li>HTML reports now made from the xml files</li>
38 :     <li>Ability to specify the match level to control how plugin IDs are compared</li>
39 :     <li>Eclipse based, so the binaries are less than 100KB.</li>
40 :     <li>Update site install</li>
41 :     <li>Internationalized messages</li>
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50 :     <td WIDTH="98%"><b>Install</b>
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52 :     Install the Distribution Diff Tool using the update manager in Eclipse version 2.1. The
53 :     URL for the update site is: <nobr>http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/jdt-core-home/tools/diff/com.oti.min.distributiondiff-updatesite/</nobr>
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56 :     Once you have installed the Distribution Diff Tool, read the README.html located in the docs subdirectory of the
57 :     com.min.oti.distributiondiff_2.1.0 plugin.
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60 :     To run the tool you will also need ANT and Xalan, the README.html enumerates the exact versions necessary.
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67 :     <td WIDTH="98%"><b>Examples of generated reports</b>
68 : oliviert 1.5 <p><a href="eclipse_2.0.3_2.1.0_compatible/html/index.html">Report comparing Eclipse 2.0.3 to Eclipse 2.1.0</a></p>
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