Phil Steitz wrote:
Thanks, Martin. I stand corrected then and will shut up about this.
To close this out, I guess we are agreeing that we have no standard
for line endings and will make no attempt to make them consistent. I
did not know the Windows cvs client was also converting the files, so
thought this was a "new" problem introduced by svn. Sorry for the
noise.
I was the one who initially raised this issue. The reason I raised it is
that most _users_ run Windows. And the default text editor on Windows is
Notepad which doesn't handle LF. Basically if I download a release and
oopen the release notes, or project xml then I want CRLF, otherwise I
have to close the file, find wordpad and reopen it.
Now I understand the argument that our users are developers and shoud
know how to change file associations, and so on. But we here are
probably at the higher end of Java/programming knowledge. I want us to
cater for users who are more Junior. Also, Notepad is very quick to
start and open a small file, which is why some of use (ie. me) choose to
leave the txt to notepad association.
This discussion however, seems to have yielded no real solution to this.
I suspect that what is actually happening is that more commons release
managers now use Unix than previously, thus the problem is more apparant.
Currently, I setup a custom ant script for each project I release, and
never use maven for building. That way I can fix crlf for the root level
text files in the zip and lf for the tar.
However, as this discussion didn't reach agreement, I shall have to keep
quiet on this subject in future release votes.
Stephen
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