Re: Ndiff for Zenmap comparison

["sara fink" <sara.fink () gmail com>]

This appears only in svn version?

Hello,
> Zenmap now uses Ndiff to do its scan comparisons. To me this is a better
> way to understand the difference between two scans than the previous
> tree display. Here is a picture of what it looks like comparing two of
> the test scans from the ndiff distribution.
>
> http://www.bamsoftware.com/wiki/uploads/Nmap/zenmap-ndiff.png
>
> Compare that to the previous interface.
>
> http://www.bamsoftware.com/wiki/uploads/Nmap/zenmap-old-diff.png
>
> Unfortunately this means Zenmap requires Ndiff in order to do scan
> comparisons. Comparisons will be slower because each scan has to be
> re-parsed by Ndiff whereas the old comparison worked on already-parsed
> scans in memory. The benefit is better output and eased maintenance.
>
> David Fifield
>
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