[pmwiki-users] phpdiff not working?

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Mon Mar 14 10:37:17 CST 2005


On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:43:15AM -0800, dan mcmullen wrote:
> hello all,
> 
> i am running PmWiki 2.0.beta26 locally for development on a windoze box.  
> simultaneous edits seem broken.  the second save brings up the 'page has 
> been modified' screen, but the text edit box is empty.  also, if i go 
> 'back' to the second edit screen ($EnableIMSCaching = 1) and click save 
> again, the 2nd edit 'succeeds' by overwriting the first edit.

As distributed, PmWiki doesn't support simultaneous edits under Windows
(because Windows doesn't supply the diff3 program that PmWiki requires
to perform the merge).

> manually including-once phpdiff.php to force the builtin diff logic changes 
> nothing. what else can i do to figure this out?

You might try the http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/SimuleditWithoutPopen
recipe -- it claims to perform merging without requiring the external program.

Pm



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