[python-committers] DVCS and windows line endings.
Nick Coghlan
ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 12:18:48 CET 2009
Brett Cannon wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 21:11, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au
> <mailto:mhammond at skippinet.com.au>> wrote:
> But my wider point was that there doesn't seem to be a required
> level of functionality, or even a blanket statement along the lines
> of "native eol support must offer as much functionality as svn".
> eg, what would, and would not, be considered a "deal-breaker" in
> this area? Anything?
>
>
> If windows users get screwed that's a deal breaker. I have not looked at
> the line endings section of the PEP yet, though, to know if they are at
> the moment.
That sounds like a "not worse than SVN" to me (which means allowing it
to be set on a per-file basis, but also being able to set it up so that
checked in text files were marked that way by default).
Cheers,
Nick.
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