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Add BeyondCompare support on Linux #114

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claremacrae opened this issue Mar 30, 2020 · 4 comments
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Add BeyondCompare support on Linux #114

claremacrae opened this issue Mar 30, 2020 · 4 comments
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BeyondCompare is supported on Linux, so it would be worth adding support for it.

https://www.scootersoftware.com/download.php?zz=kb_linux_install
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When installed via the link above, for Ubuntu, bcompare is in the PATH, and this just works. So adding support for this should be pretty easy.

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Better still would be to call bcomp - as that reuses any existing Beyond Compare session....
https://www.scootersoftware.com/v4help/index.html?calling_bc_from_other_applications.html

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This is implemented - once I've finished setting up a Linux VM to test it, I'll close the issue.

claremacrae added a commit that referenced this issue Apr 5, 2020
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Fix BeyondCompare support on Linux (#114)
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It turns out that the bcomp command does not exist on Linux,
and bcompare successfully re-uses any existing Window.
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This is now tested on Ubuntu, and fixed.

To install Beyond Compare for testing, I followed these instructions:

https://www.scootersoftware.com/download.php?zz=kb_linux_install

And ran these commands:

wget https://www.scootersoftware.com/bcompare-4.3.4.24657_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gdebi-core
sudo gdebi bcompare-4.3.4.24657_amd64.deb

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