Re: Generation of Diffs for WS-Policy Working Drafts

It's more than just the pointers to the tools. IIRC, there were some 
configuration issues
that had to be ***just right*** in order to get the diffmk to work 
correctly.

I know this, because I once tried to get things to work and couldn't get 
something
***just right*** and it failed. I think it had to do with the version of 
the JVM needed, etc.

Cheers,

Christopher Ferris
STSM, Software Group Standards Strategy
email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com
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public-ws-policy-eds-request@w3.org wrote on 08/09/2006 04:59:10 PM:

> Paul Cotton wrote:
> > I know that Norm Walsh has generated diffs of WDs for other WGs. 
> > 
> > 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
> 
> > 
> > /paulc
> > 
> > Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
> > 17 Eleanor Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K2E 6A3
> > Tel: (613) 225-5445 Fax: (425) 936-7329
> > mailto:Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> -----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
> > 
> 
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