Re: [Gnu-arch-users] a new project

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Andy Tai <address@hidden> writes:

> Well, in a related note, are there any solutions to
> revision control of common documents (say these in the
> Microsoft Word format (now commonly accesible by free
> software) or in the new Opendocument format)?   If a
> revision control system can efficiently allow diff'ing
> of such documents in their native formats, and is free
> software, that will be extremely useful.  However, I
> am not sure of any that exists right now.

Tools such as OpenOffice.org Writer include versioning tools
specifically tailored for their document format[0].  This allows users
to view ``semantic diffs'', i.e. changes to the document itself, not to
its underlying representation.

Similarly, Lisp-like languages could greatly benefit from a tailored
diff format, an ``sexp-diff''.  According to Google, it seems that
MzScheme already has an implementation of this.

Thanks,
Ludovic.

[0] http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/features.html