MOD Diff Renderer (auto generate MOD files)

[igorw]

Whee

I decided to post this in the MOD writers' because it's not really a MOD, but more a tool for MOD authors. I still put [Dev] in the topic because there's no real package yet. You have to use svn to access it. Enough introduction nonsensetalk.

What's a diff renderer?
phpBB includes a modified PEAR diff library, that is used by the automatic updater. This diff lib consists of the "engine", which is the part that takes the files and puts them into an internal diff format. The counterpart are the renderers. These renderers will output the diff in differen't formats. For example unified diff.

And what does the MOD Diff Renderer do?
This tool is basicly a renderer to output the diff as MOD file. It takes an original and a modified phpBB directory, compares the two and automatically generates a MOD file of the changes.

How to get it?
Currently it's only possible to get it via svn. Here is the URL:

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http://svn2.assembla.com/svn/evilmods/3.0/diff_tools/trunk/

Credits
Thanks to Paul who originally came up with this idea but was too slow to get it done.

See also
This topic at phpBB.com

[Obsidian]

NO WAY! Awesome idea, evil!

I will await the completion very eagerly. This is going to be a great help in MOD building.

Now, if I could get that EasyData MOD Author tool done (standard DB install script), this would be the perfect tag-team combination.

[igorw]

In fact, you can already use it . As for standard db actions, take a look at this and this article .

[Obsidian]

In fact, you can already use it . As for standard db actions, take a look at [url=http://phpbbmodders.net/articles/3.0/create_table/]this[/url] and [url=http://phpbbmodders.net/articles/3.0/dbal/]this[/url] article .

I know, seen those.

It's just that I'm working on setting up the GUI for the script, and maybe later I've got to make it use the template system. I posted 0.1.3 (non-working code, just my work in progress) over at STG, in the MOD Author's board, in response to ..::Frans::..'s question.

[igorw]

You could of course do what blinky does, use phpBB3's installation framework.

[Obsidian]

You could of course do what blinky does, use phpBB3's installation framework.

Why hand't I thought of that earlier...

I sense a code rewrite in the very near future...