Hi, I opened these issue to add a property to allow us to select the filter : http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPDIST-28
Isn't it useful to ensure that the LF line ending is used in Unix Archives ? Arnaud > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Dion Gillard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoyé : mardi 15 novembre 2005 10:02 > À : Jakarta Commons Developers List > Objet : Re: [all][POLL] what files to fixcrlf for windows > distributions > > As someone who uses Windows on a daily basis, I've never had > a pproblem with the LF line endings and hence would only > filter *.txt in a binary distribution. > > On 11/15/05, Mario Ivankovits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > It turns out that it is required to fix the crlf (EOL) thing when > > building distributions for windows distributions. > > A "windows distribution" is a distribution packed as zip file. > > > > Maven will add support to define a filter to setup the extension of > > the files to convert. > > > > Anyway I think we should find a standard how to setup this filter. > > > > > > The extension in question are: > > > > [ ] .txt > > [ ] .java > > [ ] .properties > > [ ] .xml > > [ ] .css > > > > .java, .properties, .xml, .css might be problematic as we might get > > diffs with the wrong line ending then - on the other hand for an > > developer its not needed as every IDE can handle LF only > line endings > > and our source code format should define this (the LF > ending) as required. > > > > So only .txt might be save as this is generally the release notes > > files and getting patches for it is very unlikely ;-) > > > > What do you think? > > > > My personal vote goes to .txt only. > > > > Thanks! > > Mario > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > http://www.multitask.com.au/people/dion/ > "You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life > and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not > live." - George Bernard Shaw > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
