> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:59:13PM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker > wrote: > > And yet, we're still speaking about systems where the only difference > > is a character or two. On a record oriented filesystem, you MUST > > convert text files to actual separate records (lines), or anything > > that deals with text (such as more or less all editors, all compilers, > > all diffing tools, all... the list goes on) is basically rendered > > worthless. > > > > I guess that monotone will stay on Unix/Windows/MacOS only. > > Is this a serious issue in practice? It seems like you could probably > get things to pretty much work well enough with some heuristics, and > the knowledge that you have to make some sacrifice to achieve > interoperability with the fundamentally different (and more prevalent) > stream-of-bytes style... > > I mean, what do, say, web browsers and sftp clients and stuff do? > > -- Nathaniel
Richard, we have a version of cvs that runs on VMS. It's been 10 years since I worked with RMS, but IIRC a C program could open a file in text mode, printf a string like ""Hello World.\n" and "the right thing" would happen. Is that correct? That would mean that the proposed file attribute would have to control how mtn opened the file, but that seems "reasonable". -Kelly _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
