Re: [Pharo-dev] lineConversion for WriteStream

[stepharo]

So it looks to me like LF wins!
It may take a while and some effort, but can we agree on a three point strategy?
     1. Default CR line ending must change!
     2. Change it to LF.
     3. Default auto-conversion of "text" input to LF?

Would be so nice :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#History
[2] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-great-newline-schism/
[3] 
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-and-canonical-partner-to-bring-ubuntu-to-windows-10/
[4] 
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/30/ubuntu-on-windows-the-ubuntu-userspace-for-windows-developers/

cheers -ben

Anyway; this is not system-breaking problem, just annoying.

Peter

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote:

On 26 May 2016, at 14:06, Peter Uhnák <i.uh...@gmail.com> wrote:



On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote:

On 26 May 2016, at 13:29, Peter Uhnák <i.uh...@gmail.com> wrote:

  In general I would say that you should write either something platform 
specific or you write something specific

Except that I cannot do that because the system doesn't support neither.
And the fact that the default line ending is CR is just bullshit… it's 2016, 
not 1986.

Yes, that CR is from days long gone ;-)

or #cr #lf or #crlf as needed, and/or make that last one a parameter 
(OSPlatform current lineEnding).

I am piping unknown content into the file, thus the need for 
`lineEndConvention:` and the reason of this entire thread. So as I said, the 
system doesn't support it.
I know I can use #lf or whatnot, but I am not creating the content, I am saving 
it.

Peter

Well, maybe I don't understand your use case, but if you do not know what is 
inside, why not save it as is, binary even, not doing any conversions ?