Sorry, ended up sending my reply to Mladen personally instead of the lists.
bye, Erik. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Erik Huelsmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Nov 14, 2005 1:10 PM Subject: Re: Win32 build files and eol-style To: Mladen Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 11/14/05, Mladen Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: > > I'd like to turn the svn:eol-style attribute off for the windown build > > files (files ending in .dsp, .dsw and win32ver.awk), and have them > > stored in win32 new-line format in the repository. > > > > Any objections? > > > > I'm not sure you can use the .dsw and .dsp file outside windows, > and on windows the files are already in CRLF when checked out > on that platform. IMO any .zip source distro should be made with > CRLF line endings for all non-binary files, so again no problem > there. There is even a perl script (lineends.pl) for those that > wish to create CRLF distros on non-windows platform. > > I see no real reason why they should be forced to have the CRLF line > endings in all cases. So, yes, I think it's useless to enforce > something like that. A reason to set the eol-style to CRLF is that *if* someone edits them on unix and accidentally inserts LFs, they're forcibly recoded to CRLF upon commit. Which -obviously- doesn't happen if you don't set an eol-style. bye, Erik.
