[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r88601 - peps/trunk/pep-0385.txt

[Nick Coghlan]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:12 AM, antoine.pitrou
<python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
> +In practice, most Mercurial users under Windows don't seem to have a need
> +for the ``eol`` extension, though, and personal experience using a
> +Linux-generated SVN checkout through a shared folder under Windows seems
> +to confirm that modern tools work well without it.

Feedback from the Mozilla and XEmacs folks at the time of that
discussion suggested that EOL issues *were* a potential issue, and
that having to revert unintentional commits of CRLF line endings was
an annoyingly common problem.

Cheers,
Nick.

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