NAME

Meta::Tool::Diff - run diff in a controlled manner for you.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: Diff.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.00

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Tool::Diff qw();
        my($object)=Meta::Tool::Diff->new();
        my($result)=$object->method();

DESCRIPTION

This module knows about diff options and will run diff for you.

FUNCTIONS

        BEGIN()
        diff_dir($$$$)
        TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

BEGIN()

This is a bootstrap method for location your installed version of diff.

diff_dir($$$$)

This method receives: 1. Directory to diff from. 2. Directory to diff to. 3. File name for output patch. 4. Relative directory for the comparison. This method will run diff and produce the requested patch.

TEST($)

This is a testing suite for the Meta::Tool::Diff module. This test is should be run by a higher level management system at integration or release time or just as a regular routine to check that all is well. This test suite currently does nothing.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Error(3), Meta::Utils::Chdir(3), Meta::Utils::Env(3), Meta::Utils::File::Patho(3), Meta::Utils::Output(3), Meta::Utils::System(3), strict(3)

TODO

Nothing.