[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r42929 - python/trunk/Tools/scripts/svneol.py

[Thomas Heller]

Tim Peters wrote:
> [Thomas Heller]
>> ...
>> The Linux-head is the release manager, prepaing the release on
>> a unixish platform, in combination with the windows guy who downloads
>> the source distribution and tries to compile that on Windows.
> 
> That sounds like an artificial (process-created) problem, then.  Since
> a release should be made from a tag, there doesn't seem a real reason
> to make the Windows release wait for a source-release tarball to get
> made (the Windows dweeb should be able to do a native checkout of the
> tag, and do their stuff in parallel -- that's how I used to do Windows
> releases, and it worked fine -- the only thing the Windows release
> serialized on was waiting for the release's final docs to get cut).

I did it the same way for the 2.3 releases that I made.  But I did not mean
the official binary Windows installer, I mean someone who downloads the official
source tarball, and compiles that himself.  There was at least one 2.3 release
where one could not compile with MSVC6 from the source tarball because of wrong
line endings.

> Setting project files to some flavor of text mode makes sense for your
> other reasons regardless (like getting useful diffs).

Sure.