Hi David,
There are currently no plans to implement a new feature that does what you are suggesting. You can compare two launch files using diff inside of Eclipse (select the .launch files in project explorer, right click, compare to > each other). There is some work in bug 326059 to associate products more closely with a launch configuration.
It feels like the actual process of creating a launch configuration should be improved and simplified before effort is made to make comparing the contents easier. If you use 3.6's feature based launching you can see how a better UI can make it much more obvious what the launch configuration will do.
Curtis
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From: David Erickson <halcyon1981@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: 08/31/2011 07:05PM
Subject: [pde-dev] Diffing launches/products
Hi All-
I've found it very difficult to synchronize the plugins/launch
levels/etc of stored launch configurations with corresponding
products, or launches with other launches, particularly as the number
of plugins you are launching heads into the high double digits or even
triple digits. I've had to finally edit these files in vim and
perform lets of text munging so I could diff them to determine
differences and fix issues with broken launches. Is there any
intention of improving this process going forward? I would love to
see a UI that allows you to select two launch configs, two products,
or one of both and right click "Compare to each other" so you can sort
out what the exact differences are.
Thanks!
David
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