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18  <td WIDTH="98%"><b>Purpose</b>  <td WIDTH="98%"><b>Purpose</b>
19  <p>The Eclipse distribution diff tool is a command line tool which compares two Eclipse based  <p>The Distribution Diff Tool is a command line tool which compares two Eclipse based
20  distributions and creates a report of the differences between them. It performs differences on  distributions and creates a report of the differences between them. It performs differences on
21  the structure of class files, but not the contents of methods. This gives the user an idea of  the structure of class files, but does not compare resources (.properties, .gif, .jpg files etc.).
22  what changed structurally between two builds, without having to wade through source changes.  This gives the user an idea of what changed between two builds, without having to wade through source changes.
23  Although the Eclipse distribution diff tool reads Eclipse distributions, it is not an Eclipse  </p>
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30  <td WIDTH="98%"><b>Install</b>  <td WIDTH="98%"><b>What's new</b>
31    <ul>    <ul>
32    <li>Download the tool <a href="diff-200302241156.zip">diff-200302241156.zip</a>.</li>  <li>Method body comparision (thanks to Olivier Thomann!)</li>
33  <li>Extract the download file on your hard drive and read the README.html file. It describes its usage.</li>  <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>
51            <p>
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>  <td WIDTH="98%"><b>Examples of generated reports</b>
68  <p><a href="examples/index.html">Generated report</a></p>  <p><a href="eclipse_2.0.3_2.1.0_compatible">Report comparing Eclipse 2.0.3 to Eclipse 2.1.0</a></p>
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