Diffuse is a graphical tool for comparing and merging text files. It can retrieve files for comparison from Bazaar, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, RCS, Subversion, and SVK repositories.
The rationale for this decision is to simplify maintenance of Diffuse by removing files that are not used anymore.
While I would like to see Diffuse ported on Windows, I think it has become impossible to salvage any of the existing files in this folder to try and fix the Windows installation. Also, since I took over the maintenance of Diffuse, no one stepped up to try and port the new Diffuse to Windows. The desire is here, but since I don't have Windows, I am not able to do the port. And in the meantime it is a burden each time I have to do a new release as I have to update several extra files that I don't know how to automate.
It is possible that Diffuse could be as easy to install on Windows as pip install diffuse, if we create a package for PyPi.
The rationale for this decision is to simplify maintenance of Diffuse by removing files that are not used anymore.
While I would like to see Diffuse ported on Windows, I think it has become impossible to salvage any of the existing files in this folder to try and fix the Windows installation. Also, since I took over the maintenance of Diffuse, no one stepped up to try and port the new Diffuse to Windows. The desire is here, but since I don't have Windows, I am not able to do the port. And in the meantime it is a burden each time I have to do a new release as I have to update several extra files that I don't know how to automate.
It is possible that Diffuse could be as easy to install on Windows as
pip install diffuse, if we create a package for PyPi.In case your are interested in porting Diffuse to Windows and want to know how it was done before, here is the repo before this MR: https://github.com/MightyCreak/diffuse/tree/c843e81cf21f79770b0a12acd6aece0fe2fd41ee/windows-installer