Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sat Mar 22 00:46:22 EDT 2014


On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Mark H Harris <harrismh777 at gmail.com> wrote:
> All files should have standard delimiters.  What I used to call flat-text
> files should have standard line-end delimiters, and standard file-end EOF
> markers. All OS's should comply with the standard... for instance, there
> should not be a windows x'0a' x'0d' line ending, and a unix  x'0d' line
> ending.

(Side point: You have your 0d and your 0a backwards; the Unix line
ending is U+000A, and the Windows default is U+000D U+000A.)

How are you going to make people change? What are you going to make
them change to? Who controls this standard, and how do you convince
all OSes to comply with it?

ChrisA



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