UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 6 V6 Modifications V6 Mod Ideas Maintaining hack documentation

Here's a problem I've been trying to solve.

Hacks are published in the forum of "deltas": Find this code, change it to this, insert so and so after it, etc.

But once I install a hack, I use BeyondCompare to do version upgrades, to merge the hacks and the "official" changes. This is easier than reinstalling the hacks, but the documentation on my published hacks gets out of date, and it's tedious to update it.

Any ideas?

Not sure really, I've been about to start merging when a new version comes out, but up until now I've waited a long time to upgrade and instead made a complete reinstall and re-added any hacks I wanted. But because of this I used 5.0.9 until 6.1 came out, and I don't want to be that much behind anymore.

Also, because I have to maintain some of my own hacks, I at least have a clean test site where I install my old hacks and rewrite them when necessary.

So I don't have any answer for you. You could download the updated versions of the hacks and hope that they are about the same as what you've merged.

With so much change in 6.2 I wonder if it isn't a good idea to do a complete reinstall again to add all updated hacks instead of having to go through so many changed files.

What I'm talking about is maintaining the documentation for the hacks that I've published. BeyondCompare works fine for me in keeping my installation of UBB.threads current, but it's messy to go back and update the documentation for hacks that I've uploaded here.

I do it this way:

Compare the new version to my hacked one.
Depending on how much i changed, i update my hacked version with the changes or i copy my hacks to the new version.

For bugtracking etc. i run a unmodified version of the current release.

For documenting the hacks i've done, i compare the unmodfied version to the hacked one.
I use araxis merge for file comparison. It displays the two files side by side an highlights the code, that differs.
So i can easily the the right line from the unmodified version and the code, that needs to be changed (from my hacked version).