Re: wanted: Ada diff tool

["Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr>]

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Terry Westley <twestley@buffalo.veridian.com> a �crit dans le message :
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> Does anyone know of a difference tool which understands the syntax of Ada?
>
> Here's the context:
>
> We use Clearcase for configuration management.  Clearcase provides a
useful
> merge facility for reconciling changes to one source file made by multiple
> people.
>
> Unfortunately, it's based on a pretty simple diff tool.  Most of the time
> it's OK,
> but sometimes I'd really like to know if the only changes to a file are
> reformatting
> or comment changes.  Then I can better make decisions about what needs to
> be tested or whether I even want to accept a specific change in certain
> releases.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
On Adalog's component page (http://pro.wanadoo.fr/adalog/compo2.htm), you'll
find a small utility called Normalize that processes an Ada source and
removes comments, unnecessary spaces, and turns the whole text (except
strings) upper-case. This is precisely intended to make a diff on the
"semantic" part of the program. FWIW....

(I wrote this because of a lengthy discussion on this topic here some times
ago. It turned out that it was faster to write the utility than to discuss
about its desirability ;-)

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