In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:22:06 +0100, rghetta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
birrachiara> Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: birrachiara> > The inspiration for .mt-autoprops comes from SVN, where birrachiara> > such things can be configured. They do it by birrachiara> > extension, but I'm not sure we really should do it that birrachiara> > way... I've always been impressed by the simple magic birrachiara> > of the Unix command 'file', but doing something like birrachiara> > that is maybe a bit much to ask... Ideas? birrachiara> To me, this is somewhat a side issue, while having some birrachiara> way to map a set of properties to a file is the real birrachiara> problem. birrachiara> Imho, to cover every situation you must use file birrachiara> attributes. Only with these you can reliably handle birrachiara> platform differences. Absolutely! I never meant that something like an autoprops file would replace appropriate attributes, just that it would contain some kind of default. Cheers, Richard ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
