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authorDavid Spencer <baildon.research@googlemail.com>2016-12-29 08:44:21 +0700
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2016-12-31 08:22:12 +0700
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development/diffoscope: Added (in-depth comparison tool).
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+diffoscope will try to get to the bottom of what makes files or
+directories different. It will recursively unpack archives of many
+kinds and transform various binary formats into more human readable
+form to compare them.
+
+
+Mandatory Dependencies
+
+Both python-magic and python-libarchive-c must be built with python3
+support, for example
+
+ PYTHON3=yes ./python-magic.SlackBuild
+ PYTHON3=yes ./python-libarchive-c.SlackBuild
+
+
+Optional Dependencies
+
+argcomplete (for argument completion)
+colord (for comparing images)
+colordiff (for comparing images)
+fontforge (for comparing font files)
+fpc (for Pascal support)
+ghc (for Haskell support)
+graphviz (for comparing images)
+jdk (for Java support)
+mono (for Mono support)
+pdftk (for comparing pdf documents)
+sng (for comparing images)
+tlsh (for fuzzy matching -- must build tlsh with 'PYTHON3=yes')