Gilbert....
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> 1. Can I re-configure jCVS to download properly? This illustrates a
> widespread problem with platform dependence in Java. If jCVS depends on
> system properties to determine UNIX or DOS mode, it is *not* platform
> independent. UNIX or DOS mode should be part of jCVS configuration. I
> should be able to use Windows to download from a CVS service to Linux.
I'm sorry, but I don't know jCVS so I cannot help you.
> 2. The snapshot should *always* be distributed in UNIX mode. Is there a
> generic tool for converting text files from LF to CR/LF? and from CR/LF to
> LF? If we ship the tool with the snapshot, a few might convert from LF to
> CF/LF.
I do this using the Linux/Unix "vi" editor (however there exists a version of
"vi" for Win32):
vi <filename>
:set notextmode
:wq
On the other hand, to use CR+LF:
vi <filename>
:set textmode
:wq
>
> 3. When it can't handle both LF and CR/LF, the tool is broken. Maybe we
> need to find a better version of make, one that is platform-independent.
...uhmmmm, the "make" utility is a part of the Linux/Unix distributions so I
think that this is impossible. But if *ALL* the file in the CVS snapshot are
text file, it is possible to build a Unix script which makes the translation.
-Corrado
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