Drop ed & reverse_ed formats #108
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These formats are super old and very unlikely used. Their implementation was broken for a while and no-one reported it. The GNU doc say that ed format is "almost obsolete". [1] The reverse_ed (aka forward-ed) is described as "not very useful". [2] [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/ed-Scripts.html [2]: https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Forward-ed.html
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I will leave this open, but I can't do this without a major version bump, so it's not happening for a while. |
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OK, no problem. I thought you could have released a major breaking version just for that 🤷🏻 Anyway, if we merge #101 at some point, I'll rebase & update this one accordingly. |
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I'm not against a major version, but there are other changes we want to do with such a release, because the main user of diff-lcs is rspec, so I need to do more research on this. |
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There will be a v2 in 2025. I can commit to that much right now. I don't want to support long-EOLed versions of Ruby anymore. |
I think this is a good idea 👍🏻 there is no emergency anyway.
Note that they use (mostly?) To give you more context on my use case and why I really want to fix the |
These formats are super old and very unlikely used. Their implementation was broken for a while and no-one reported it.
The GNU doc say that ed format is "almost obsolete". 1
The reverse_ed (aka forward-ed) is described as "not very useful". 2
This is just a suggestion, but IMHO this will simplify the maintenance 🤷🏻♂️ feel free to close!