# Comparing Final Builder Scripts

**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/comparing-final-builder-scripts/1042
**Category:** Discussion
**Created:** [November 25, 2008, 11:41am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/comparing-final-builder-scripts/1042 "2008-11-25T11:41:56Z")
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### Author: ![deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/deleted_user/32/937_2.png) [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2008, 11:41am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/comparing-final-builder-scripts/1042/1 "2008-11-25T11:41:56Z")

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First things first - Great product - We are very happy with it.

My history: I have a final builder script that I use to create localised versions of my company's products. My script is a modified subset of the Dev team's final builder script. Everything works nice and easy until Dev team decides to update their script (which happens very often).

Question: Do you guys have any suggestions as to what tool should I use to compare two final builder scripts? I used Beyond Compare for comparing the new and old scripts generated by the dev team but of course BeyondCompare shows me the XML code and it is quite hard to have an idea of what was modified as it seems to be all over the place.

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### Author: ![paulsamways](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e8c25b/32.png) [@paulsamways](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/paulsamways)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2008, 11:10am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/comparing-final-builder-scripts/1042/2 "2008-11-25T11:10:13Z")

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Hi Liam,   
  
 Unfortunately using a diffing tool (such as Beyond Compare) on the uncompressed project files is the _best_ way to compare the projects. My only suggestion would be to see whether the project can be modified so that you can do the localization within the dev’s build script so that you don’t need to have the separate project.   
  
 Regards,   
 Paul.

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### Author: ![deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/deleted_user/32/937_2.png) [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2008, 8:14am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/comparing-final-builder-scripts/1042/3 "2008-11-26T08:14:26Z")

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Hi Paul,

Thanks for confirming the diff tool&nbsp;and thanks for the idea. That is&nbsp;our final destination - having a sim-ship - but&nbsp;there are&nbsp;several steps to go before this is possible.

Oh and I found out that breaking the Action Lists into individual files made the comparison much easier.

Regards,

Liam