Hello Jürgen,
In my work to implement regex support, I realised that creating a nice diff for you is more difficult than it should be.
The main problem is caused by the fact that a lot of generated files are part of the source respository. Since I made changes to these files, I end up with a massive diff that includes all kinds of files that are not needed.
It would be nicer if these were not part of the repository, and one could simply run autoreconf -fvi manually. This is what Emacs does, and it works quite well.
It would also be nice if there was a way for an external contributor to contribute merge requests directory to the respository. This is ideally done using a distributed source control system such as Mercurial or Git, but Subversion works too, although you would have to create accounts for the other developers.
Is this something you could consider?
Regards,
Elias