Bill,
Am 15.02.2011 00:14, schrieb William A. Rowe Jr.:
The answer is to use the correct tool on the correct platform, not to break
the line endings for everyone vainly attempting to maintain the files in the
text editors of the other platforms.
please elaborate who are those 'everyone' folks, and what is the correct
platform??
configure & friends are shell scripts - thus every platform which deals
with shell scripts should also provide an editor which can edit them, no?
what I talk about here mainly is windows, and I guess you know well
about the situation on that platform ...
If you are foolish enough to mix vc ports of svn with cyg, or visa versa,
you have what is coming to you :)
yeah, and since there's nowhere a MSYS SVN binary which would do it
'right' I would have to either use Cygwin then, or cant work directly
from svn, but need to always do a 'svn export --native-eol LF' in order
to get the configure scripts in 'right' format ...
so please tell me exactly which platforms may be harmed by
'svn:eol-style LF' for the configure scripts; and please dont tell me
now that you allways want to maintain these scripts from a windows box
with notepad - then I will reply that you should use the 'right' editor
which can handle LF files ... :-)
Please see that I want to find a solution which works for most users
with the stuff commonly available - and there are a couple of editors
available which can handle LF files properly on windows, but so far I
have not found a MSYS version of svn, and Cygwin seems a bit overkill
just for getting svn only ...
Gün.
