Meld (software)

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Meld
Meld Logo-48.svg
Meld file1.png
Meld 3.x.y performing a file comparison
Original author(s) Stephen Kennedy, Kai Willadsen, Vincent Legoll
Developer(s) The GNOME Project
Initial release July 1, 2005; 18 years ago (2005-07-01)[1]
Stable release 3.16.0 / May 1, 2016; 7 years ago (2016-05-01)[2]
Written in Python, PyGTK/PyGObject
Operating system Linux and Unix-like, OS X, Windows
Type Diff viewer
License GPL-2.0
Website meldmerge.org, wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Meld

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Meld is the visual diff and merge tool of GNOME targeted at developers. It allows users to compare two or three files or directories visually, color-coding the different lines.

Meld allows to compare files, directories, and version controlled repositories. It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files and directories, and supports many version control systems including Git, Mercurial, Baazar, CVS and Subversion.

Meld is free and open-source software subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It supports OS X; however, due to dependencies, the installation takes more than 6 hours with MacPorts. A pre-built OS X bundle can be downloaded from here: https://github.com/yousseb/meld/releases

Requirements

Requirements for Meld stable 3.16 are as follows:

  • Python 2.7
  • GTK+/pygtk 3.14
  • GLib 2.36
  • GLib/pygobject 3.14
  • GtkSourceView/pygtksourceview 3.14 (optional)

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