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I facing a problem, on tracking changes made by other developers.
Note: SVN is not used for some reasons.
So, is there any better way apart from individual file comparison using kDiff. This is too tiresome for large number of files.
Such as looking for entire Project's Comparison, for projects created in Xcode.
Thanks.
You can use FileMerge that comes as part of the Xcode package. This will take two directories and compare the contents of the trees rooted at that point showing files only in one tree, that differ in the two trees, etc. For differing files you get a standard visual diff. This should give you what you need quickly and easily, we actually use it in conjunction with svn to compare branches, check merges, etc.
You can use any other SCM, it's a natural way of tracking changes ("Source Control...")
If you still want make own life harder, you can use any OS-specific tool, which can compare directories, not only separate files
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I have seen many projects willing to switch from autotool to cmake. I can quote VCMI, Apache QPID, and Battle for Wesnoth too.
The two main reasons I read on forums were:
cmake colour output is much prettier.
when configure.ac contains error, the build doesn’t work.
But I am not convinced by either argument. As I have a couple projects I want to distribute, I would like to have some guidelines I could follow when it comes to choosing one of the two. So, what are the differences between them? Are there things I can do with one and I can’t with the other?
EDIT:
Some arguments for automake (I haven’t verified them):
it supports "make uninstall", when cmake does not
there is no need to install anything
For some reason people seem to assume that autotools is just a "build system". It's really more than that, though. The autotools are really geared to help a project comply with distributing software under the GPL and related licenses (especially collecting the "corresponding source") and GNU project type documentation (Changelog, README, NEWS, etc). It's not that you can't do this with another build system, but you might have to take extra steps to do so. I don't know cmake or the other build tools well enough to know if there's a way to produce a tarball or something similar to autotools make dist or what gets included when you do so.
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Closed 9 years ago.
I have an App that is translated to four languages. I find that updating and maintaining the strings files extremely tedious.
Is there a way to edit different translations side by side similar to what IntelliJ provides:
(source: jetbrains.com)
I would also be happy with a simply MS-Excel to Strings conversion script, where the Excel would be the master and the .strings files would be generated.
These apps saved me from a world of hurt. There's no guide, so you'd have to figure it out yourself. The apps are free though and very well designed.
http://www.loc-suite.org/
My company use a tool called Localization Helper from Mac App Store. I reckon it's pretty good.
How about Linguan?
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Closed 9 years ago.
I'd like to create a flowchart/map visualization of how my project works, what is the best software available for this purpose? I'm not looking for something to do it automatically, I'd like to manually create the flowchart.
This is for a project done in Objective-C if that helps/matters.
OmniGraffle is pretty good. It even creates class diagrams from an Xcode 3.x project.
Other web applications that do this, that are not already mentioned:
draw.io, is free and uses Google Drive or Dropbox for storage (including Google Drive Realtime). I co-founded this.
Lucidchart is native JavaScript, like draw.io.
Creately and Cacoo are Flash implementations, although Cacoo are moving away from Flash.
Aside from my obvious bias, I would suggest Lucidchart or Gliffy (mentioned above).
If you (a) like gliffy and (b) want a desktop-based app that does the same thing, take a look at yEd. Supports BPMN and traditional flowcharts (as well as myriad other drawing notations). Nice and easy to use, cross-platform. Oh, and free :-)
hth.
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In your workplace, where do you store your common, non-database specific scripts that you use in SQL Server? Do you keep them in .SQL scripts on the file server, do you store them in the Master database, or do you keep them in a database you defined specifically for these kinds of things?
We store them as regular source code, so in version-control.
You have then available previous versions of script, and you avoid "someone deleted the XY script" risk.
We store them in a wiki where everyone can access them.
We store them in a separate database and have a custom program for easy execution and maintenance.
I horde them all in template format on my hard drive. CTRL+SHIFT+M will fill the placehoders. It's great.
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I am using WIX at the moment, but keep on running into limitations (such as ability to expand properties as the value of another property). Also not sure if I ran into a bug with the FileSearch element, because it is not working as expected (does not find a file that is definitely there). I can go the route of using custom actions built into a dll, but was just wondering if there is a beter way.
I think the best tool (maturity, features, documentation, easy-of-use) is currently AdvancedInstaller. I'm not usually recommending commercial tools but this one is really good value for money.
They also have freeware edition for basic needs.
I have been using Installshield almost a decade by now.