Re: rfcdiff tool

Kesara Rathnayake <kesara@staff.ietf.org> Wed, 04 December 2024 00:50 UTC

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From: Kesara Rathnayake <kesara@staff.ietf.org>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:50:39 +1300
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Subject: Re: rfcdiff tool
To: Acee Lindem <acee.ietf@gmail.com>
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Hi Acee,

Old rfcdiff from tools.ietf.org URLs should redirect to
https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff
That web service runs rfcdiff by default.
The reason for having iddiff in the URL was it was meant to replace
rfcdiff, but reverted to use rfcdiff.

But you could also use iddiff [1] by selecting the use iddiff option in
that web view.

[1] https://github.com/ietf-tools/iddiff

Cheers,
Kesara
PS There's differences in output from iddiff and rfcdiff. And the community
favours the rfcdiff output.

On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 at 13:41, Acee Lindem <acee.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> Does anyone know what happened to the rfcdiff online compare? It used to
> be accessible at https://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?
>
> I tried https://authors.ietf.org/rfcdiff since authors.ietf.org replaced
> tools.ietf.org but no luck here either.
>
> Thanks,
> Acee
>


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Kesara Rathnayake
Senior Software Development Engineer - IETF Administration LLC
kesara@staff.ietf.org