-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello all! Following issue: I am up re-organizing the whole "externals" part in trunk as you might have recognized already. In fact this is done now with the single exception of a generic patching system, e.g. needed for BeautifulSoup.py. (As usual) this is no problem under linux, but becomes a major issue under win. The mechanism I want to use is the well known diff-patch duo. Therefore a "patch" executable/binary (OR python script) is needed (for every OS). While this is kind of "built-in" in linux, win needs extra-attention. This is what I found so far: * http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils/ The executables do only depend on the Microsoft C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not on an emulation layer like that provided by Cygwin tools - windows ONLY not multi OS * http://python-patch.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/patch.py Python script therefore multi OS - but does not support the full diff-patch "command set" e.g. cannot create new files * https://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/ Not a command-line tool like "patch" but a python library/module. Multi OS. So I am stuck here and need some further knowledge, experience and personal preferences from your side in order to make a good decicion. In my opinion we should also keep further os (than just linux, mac, win) in our mind, becuase they are very close to what we already have too. Thanks for any help and Greetings DrTrigon