WinMerge Portable 2.6.12 Released

Submitted by Ryan McCue on January 21, 2008 - 4:42pm.

WinMerge logo WinMerge Portable 2.6.12 has been released. WinMerge Portable is a popular differencing tool, useful for comparing files or directories. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format for easy use from any portable device and integration with the PortableApps.com Suite. Best of all, it's open source and completely free.

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WinMerge Portable Screenshot WinMerge Portable is a free file and folder comparing tool for Windows with lots of great features:

Visual differencing and merging of text files
Flexible editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers and word-wrap
Handles DOS, UNIX and MAC text file formats
Difference pane shows current difference in two vertical panes
Highlights differences inside lines in file compare
Regular Expression based file filters in directory compare allow excluding and including items
Creates patch files

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WinMerge Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. WinMerge Portable is packaged in the PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.

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Congrats Ryan

John T. Haller (Homepage) - January 21, 2008 - 4:49pm

Congrats to Ryan on his first PortableApps.com release Smiling

Live with purpose.

Me too :-)

MarkoMLM (Homepage) - January 21, 2008 - 4:53pm

and thanks to You for all the work.

Regards
Marko

You've paid for Sotware more or less?
What You need is OSS!

could you get the german page up?

Simeon - January 21, 2008 - 4:54pm

if you have the time...

"I was just out walking my rat and I seem to have lost my way" - James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever

He did

John T. Haller (Homepage) - January 21, 2008 - 5:04pm

I think Marko did it already. Just add a de/ to the beginning of the main page.

Live with purpose.

oh

Simeon - January 21, 2008 - 5:09pm

he is faster than I thought Smiling

"I was just out walking my rat and I seem to have lost my way" - James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever

Please ...

MarkoMLM (Homepage) - January 21, 2008 - 5:17pm

... let me time to upload a first version before You start :-|

But no matter if the German page is up so quick after the release Smiling
Could You do the rest Simeon?
Thanks

Marko

You've paid for Sotware more or less?
What You need is OSS!

for the trash???

Simeon - January 21, 2008 - 5:20pm

OK I'll wait. I don't want to push you. Honestly.

"I was just out walking my rat and I seem to have lost my way" - James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever

Go for it :-)

MarkoMLM (Homepage) - January 21, 2008 - 5:23pm

I could not upload the first translation with the first try, but with the second one.
You are to quick for me, so I've edited my last post Smiling
I'll need some sleep to get the first version of the PA Update tool online tomorrow Smiling

Regards

You've paid for Sotware more or less?
What You need is OSS!

Also,

Ryan McCue (Homepage) - January 21, 2008 - 7:10pm

I think it's worth noting, I looked into setting the language automatically with the installer, and although it's stored in the registry as a Windows language code (i.e. 1033), it needs to be converted to hex first and I didn't see a way to do that.

In any case, yay! Sticking out tongue

Waiting for Rocks'n'Diamonds Portable? Fear not, it's coming soon.

ok

Simeon - January 22, 2008 - 6:45am

what about the App itself?

I think its too much work for nothing. Maybe in the future when we want all apps with german installer/Launcher strings but not atm.

And if you have the time could you update the german front page?
http://portableapps.com/de
Its REALLY old Smiling

"I was just out walking my rat and I seem to have lost my way" - James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever

Done ...

MarkoMLM (Homepage) - January 22, 2008 - 7:20am

... and now You are the new owner :-9
Thank You for the other updates on the de/apps and utilities pages Smiling

Regards
Marko

You've paid for Sotware more or less?
What You need is OSS!

ehh,,can i ask to know, how do you guys making release of these?

arthipesa (Homepage) - February 12, 2008 - 2:36pm

i wonder..
i wanted to make certain programmes to be portable to, anyone can guide me?

Not on a News Story

Patrick Patience (Homepage) - February 12, 2008 - 11:05pm

Questions like this shouldn't go on a news story, rather in the Forums. This question is asked a lot, and there is several unsupported solutions available like using the 'Portable App Creator', or the 'Portable Application Template'. The best solution (but maybe the hardest is to modify the code from on of the launchers here in the Other\Source directory. Here's a recent post asking the same question. You can find those tools I mentioned by searching the forums. Please do not reply to this, thanks.

My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better. - RMS

Yeah Ryan

Tim Clark - January 21, 2008 - 4:52pm

Will download and try it out.
Congratulations Smiling

Tim

"The Wheels of John grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small" Eye-wink

Congratulations Ryan

Simeon - January 21, 2008 - 4:57pm

I really love this App and am very happy to see it in the official List.

I use it very often because its handy to compare nsi files between versions Smiling
Hope you get your games released soon *hint*!

"I was just out walking my rat and I seem to have lost my way" - James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever

Heck yes

sluthy - January 21, 2008 - 5:23pm

I've been waiting for a program like this to pop up for free, several times I've had two huge folders on my drives and had no way of properly comparing the two other than just hard labour and guesswork. Now it's on my USB for free...top stuff!

BTW, long time user/reader, first time poster. I finally registered just to comment on this Laughing out loud

Congrats

arqbrulo - January 21, 2008 - 5:46pm

Congratulations, Ryan, on your first official release. I'll sure be using this, the same way I have ever since it first came out as beta. Thanks.

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -- Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: baby ain't mine." -- Adam Holguin

Yay!

Patrick Patience (Homepage) - January 21, 2008 - 7:34pm

Go Ryan *clap* *clap* Go Ryan!

*patrick now waits patiently for his turn*

Sadly, though...

arqbrulo - January 21, 2008 - 7:42pm

Patrick will not get his turn.

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -- Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: baby ain't mine." -- Adam Holguin

Hehe.

Ryan McCue (Homepage) - January 21, 2008 - 8:12pm

Not if I have a say [insert evil laughter here]! Sticking out tongue

Waiting for Rocks'n'Diamonds Portable? Fear not, it's coming soon.

I just tried it

Simeon - January 22, 2008 - 6:52am

and it works great.

Thanks Ryan!

EDIT

Found a typo on the winmerge page:

Date updated: January 21, 2007

"I was just out walking my rat and I seem to have lost my way" - James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever

Cheers.

Ryan McCue (Homepage) - January 23, 2008 - 7:30am

Fixed now. Shows what happens when I do this late at night Sticking out tongue

Waiting for Rocks'n'Diamonds Portable? Fear not, it's coming soon.

Works great

betaman - January 22, 2008 - 8:28am

I already have Beyond Compare, but this is nice, very easy to use.

claps

Steve Lamerton (Homepage) - January 22, 2008 - 10:53am

Welcome to the club Ryan Eye-wink

'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK
Developer & Moderator

...

Patrick Patience (Homepage) - January 22, 2008 - 12:55pm

*patrick sits outside clubhouse looking at poorly drawn 'No Patricks' sign*

hahaha

Simeon - January 22, 2008 - 1:18pm

I commiserate you and express my condolences. Jawdropping!

"I was just out walking my rat and I seem to have lost my way" - James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever

Your time will come

LittleUnkn0wn - January 22, 2008 - 4:44pm

Just have some patience! Sticking out tongue

Congratulations, Ryan

porterkm (Homepage) - January 22, 2008 - 3:39pm

I'll download and try it out.

"I was like that [excited about new technologies], but then John [Dvorak] taught me that everything was a piece of crap and the world is going to hell."
-Leo Laporte

-Please search before post

Dugg.

Ryan McCue (Homepage) - January 23, 2008 - 4:49pm

http://digg.com/software/WinMerge_Portable_2_6_12_Released

Waiting for Rocks'n'Diamonds Portable? Fear not, it's coming soon.

BTW the link that says "read

rab040ma - January 23, 2008 - 7:26pm

BTW the link that says "read on for details" doesn't have an anchor, it just goes to the same page.

Another ingredient for a happy marriage: in a family argument, if it turns out you are right -- apologize at once! (The Notebooks of Lazarus Long)

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Yeah

Ryan McCue (Homepage) - January 24, 2008 - 5:02am

That's because it's before the  (I think, maybe that's WP) tag. Take a look at the news pages at /news to see how it works.

Waiting for Rocks'n'Diamonds Portable? Fear not, it's coming soon.

Awesome!!

5of0 - February 20, 2008 - 7:10pm

This is by far my favorite diff program, and now it's a portableapp! Saw the update on my gMail feed and was quite excited. Thanks a million!

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I've got Portable...
Firefox, Gaim, GIMP, AbiWord, VLC, 7zip, OpenOffice, FileZilla, KompoZer.
Also: WinFrotz, FCEUltra, DOSBox, FSCapture, XVI32, Notepad++

I'm new to WinMerge and was

RogerL - February 21, 2008 - 3:38am

I'm new to WinMerge and was surprised to see it has an installed size of 11.5M

I have been a happy user of Igor Green's Compare It! (formerly WinCmp) for many years which has an installed size of 1.5M (one executable, one help file, no dlls)

Is there any one familiar with both that can tell me what I get for an extra 10M?

HP200LX Treo650 2G_SD+USB PAM & ASuite

I can tell you that 7.5MB of

rab040ma - February 21, 2008 - 12:17pm

I can tell you that 7.5MB of that is language support; you can probably delete the ones you wouldn't use. Another 1.3MB is standard libraries.

Another ingredient for a happy marriage: in a family argument, if it turns out you are right -- apologize at once! (The Notebooks of Lazarus Long)

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