Re: [PATCH] git-latexdiff: new command in contrib, to use latexdiff and Git

Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] writes:

Tim Haga [off-list ref] writes:

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While testing your script on my office machine i discovered that the
following might be a problem:

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+if [ "$view" = 1 ] || [ "$view" = maybe ] && [ "$output" = "" ]; then
+    xpdf "$pdffile"
+fi

Xpdf is not installed on all machines (e.g. it's not installed on my
office machine), so maybe it would be a good idea to use a environment
variable instead?

Honestly speaking, this is looking more like an "useful application for
latex users who happen to use git to store their document source", and not
a "useful addition for all git users", to me.

These two viewpoint suggests completely different evolution path for this
program.  Imagining what the first major new enhancement intended for
people outside the original audience <git,latex> will be, I have this
suspicion that "this new version will help people who have their documents
stored in Mercurial" would be much more realistic (and the end result
being useful) than "this new version will help git users who do not write
their documents in latex but in asciidoc".

For that reason, I suspect that in the longer term, the tool will benefit
more if I do not take this patch and the tool lives standalone.