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Wassercrats
03-06-2006, 07:12 PM
I'd like to keep my web application running in one place only, under my Futurequest account, to prevent piracy, but I'd also like to allow a non-profit to integrate it with their own tools. I'm not sure exactly how they want to do that, but apparently using my application as I've already made it available isn't good enough for them. Here's part of an email that I received.I ran across your DiffNote tool and it is quite cool. Do you have any plans to release it under the GPL or for non-profit use? We have a great need for a tool like DiffNote and I was wondering what your plans were for it in the future.

Our ideal use for it would be to compare versions of pages under construction with their published counterparts. Right now we sometimes get tens or hundreds of pages published at a time and it is a cumbersome task to find out what has changed.I don't want to release the source code or even a closed source version that someone might be able to copy. I don't think there's a privacy concern with me being able to see what's diffed (but I guess it's possible that they don't want me to steal a new design). I think they just want better intergration with their tools and the ability to customize the application. Is SOAP the answer? Not that I'd try learning it, but I'm wondering.

hobbes
03-06-2006, 08:33 PM
How about a Firefox extension? A la the Web Developer extenion that allows you to Validate Local CSS/HTML.

Alternatively, provide a textarea field for the source to be copy/pasted into.

Wassercrats
03-06-2006, 08:57 PM
If they use Firefox and the extention can have a remote back-end (because of my piracy concerns), it's possible that would be good enough for them. I might add text boxes for the files to be diffed anyway since it's easy. But I have a feeling neither would be enough for the guy who emailed me. He's the head programmer and he probably wants something that intergrates better with whatever he's using it for, but I'm finding it hard to be protective and generous with my application at the same time. I might just offer him a customized version, but since he's a programmer, he could probably already programmatically use the application and parse the results as he wants. And there are other diff tools out there. I don't think I'll be able to give him what he wants.