What: eskil
Where: http://eskil.berlios.de/
Description: Eskil is a GUI frontend to diff.
It supports RCS/CVS and has some Clearcase support.
It also does directory diff, CVS conflict merge and more.
Requires Tcl/Tk 8.5a7 or newer (makes use of {*}).
Currently at version 2.2.
Updated: 05/2006
Contact: peter dot spjuth at space dot seBy Peter Spjuth
A similar application is tkdiff.
2006-05-02: Eskil is moving to Berlios [L1 ].
LV 2007 Aug 06
Observations regarding eskil...
When I first attempted to invoke eskil, I got the following:
$ tclkit eskil22.kit
extra characters after close-brace
while executing
"return [uplevel 1 [list [namespace origin mcunknown] $Locale $src {*}$args]] "
(procedure "mc" line 24)
invoked from within
"mc $lab"
(procedure "tk::MessageBox" line 79)
invoked from within
"tk::MessageBox {expand}$args"
(procedure "tk_messageBox" line 2)
invoked from within
"tk_messageBox -icon error -message $msg -title "Fatal error""
(procedure "panic" line 4)
invoked from within
"panic $::errorInfo"
(procedure "starkit::header" line 10)
invoked from within
"starkit::header mk4 -readonly"
(file "eskil22.kit" line 5)
$ sdx.kit version /projects/sprs_lwv/tcl85/bin/tclkit
2005/09/27 03:31:11 54267-20834 /projects/sprs_lwv/tcl85/bin/tclkit
$ /projects/sprs_lwv/tcl85/bin/tclkit
% info patchlevel
8.5a4After a comment by Peter, I began to wonder if perhaps it was a tclkit error, rather than an eskil, so I tried eskil with an older tclkit and that worked just fine.
I then tried to use eskil with ActiveTcl 8.5's base-tk (which is, for a subset of starkits, a substitute) and found another issue. This time, I found that eskil includes only snit version 1 - but the snit toplevel, when it sees it is running under Tcl/Tk 8.5, attempts to use snit version 2.
Because that isn't included in eskil, a fatal error is generated.
Just a head's up if someone else runs into this problem. The current solution is either to update the snit in eskil to include both versions, or to go download an older version of a tclkit.