Re: Generation of Diffs for WS-Policy Working Drafts

Paul Cotton wrote:
> I know that Norm Walsh has generated diffs of WDs for other WGs.  
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> Maybe we can consult Norm on this matter?  Norm?

I talked to Norm (we are at the same conference), he is going to send
some pointers to the tool(s).

Felix

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: public-ws-policy-eds-request@w3.org [mailto:public-ws-policy-eds-
>> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Prasad Yendluri
>> Sent: August 9, 2006 2:25 PM
>> To: Asir Vedamuthu; Prasad Yendluri; public-ws-policy-eds@w3.org
>> Subject: RE: Generation of Diffs for WS-Policy Working Drafts
>>
>>
>> Certainly. Currently I have the ant build file modified in my private
>> environment to diff against a specific revision but, that can be made more
>> intelligent.
>>
>> The main issue however is to get the diff to work reliably and to capture
>> all changes from the previous targeted version.
>>
>> As I mentioned on the call today, I have not succeeded in producing a good
>> diff that captures all changes. I experimented quite a bit and turned on
>> all
>> the options that are remotely related. Still no luck.
>>
>> Has anyone had a chance to try this tool out and had better success?
>>
>> Are there other tools we can check out?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Prasad
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Asir Vedamuthu [mailto:asirveda@microsoft.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 11:34 PM
>> To: Prasad Yendluri; public-ws-policy-eds@w3.org
>> Subject: RE: Generation of Diffs for WS-Policy Working Drafts
>>
>> I am wondering if the diff generation (via DIFFMK) can be automated
>> through
>> the ant build file.
>>
>> PS: the FPWD version of ws-policy-framework.xml is at
>> http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2006/ws/policy/ws-policy-
>> framework.xml?r
>> ev=1.15&content-type=text/plain&only_with_tag=Working-Draft-31-July-2006
>> (tagged version)
>>
>> Asir
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: public-ws-policy-eds-request@w3.org
>> [mailto:public-ws-policy-eds-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Prasad Yendluri
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 6:15 PM
>> To: public-ws-policy-eds@w3.org
>> Subject: RE: Generation of Diffs for WS-Policy Working Drafts
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I used the diffmk program to generate the diffs of the framework and
>> attachment docs.
>> I used one of the early versions as base to compare against for both (CVS
>> v1.2 for framework and v1.3 for attachment).
>> Attached are the so called diff versions. diff-A.html is the attachment
>> doc
>> diff and diff-F.html is the framework doc diff.
>> Do they look right? I am not so sure ☺
>>
>> Regards,
>> Prasad
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: public-ws-policy-eds-request@w3.org
>> [mailto:public-ws-policy-eds-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Prasad Yendluri
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 6:32 PM
>> To: public-ws-policy-eds@w3.org
>> Subject: Generation of Diffs for WS-Policy Working Drafts
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I checked on the following Action Items and it seems the DiffMk tool at:
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/diffmk/
>> is a popular one that some folks use.  I checked it out, and it seems to
>> work fine for me.
>> I can try and generate the diffs.
>>
>> I will use the editors’ copies at as the current versions:
>> • Web Services Policy 1.5 - Framework
>> • Web Services Policy 1.5 - Attachment
>> Is there is a quick link to the version of the specs that we want to diff
>> these against?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Prasad
>>
>>
>>
>> Editors to respond to Fredericks request.
>> <scribe> ACTION: Editors to respond to Fredericks request to have a diff
>> version for the WDs [recorded in
>> http://www.w3.org/2006/07/26-ws-policy-minutes.html#action06]
>>
>>
>>     Editorr’s call  ACTION: Prasad to check re
>> http://www.w3.org/2006/07/26-ws-policy-minutes.html#action06
>