Re: [python-committers] DVCS and windows line endings.

2009-02-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> And it is even covered in the "minimal setup" section: > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/#hg I think this setup is incomplete: you should also add encode/decode sections to list all file name patterns that should see line conversion. Not sure when to use cleverencode and when to use dumb

Re: [python-committers] DVCS and windows line endings.

2009-02-26 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Thoughts? Procedurally, I think there are many open issues. I'm not sure whether they get collected somewhere - so far, I took the position that I'll wait for a final proposal of a specific technology, with a specific demo setup, and then look what is wrong with this setup. Among the issues tha

Re: [python-committers] DVCS and windows line endings.

2009-02-26 Thread Jim Fulton
On Feb 25, 2009, at 7:14 PM, Mark Hammond wrote: So I guess the first question is: how much importance do we want to put on that capability? IMO, this is very important. Jim -- Jim Fulton Zope Corporation ___ python-committers mailing list pyt

Re: [python-committers] DVCS and windows line endings.

2009-02-26 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le jeudi 26 février 2009 à 16:11 +1100, Mark Hammond a écrit : > > And it is even covered in the "minimal setup" section: > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/#hg > > I can't make the mercurial instructions work; I'm yet to investigate why > though. There's some doc here: http://www.selen

Re: [python-committers] DVCS and windows line endings.

2009-02-26 Thread Nick Coghlan
Brett Cannon wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 21:11, Mark Hammond > wrote: > But my wider point was that there doesn't seem to be a required > level of functionality, or even a blanket statement along the lines > of "native eol support must offer as mu

Re: [python-committers] DVCS and windows line endings.

2009-02-25 Thread Brett Cannon
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 21:11, Mark Hammond wrote: > > And it is even covered in the "minimal setup" section: > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/#hg > > I can't make the mercurial instructions work; I'm yet to investigate why > though. > > But my wider point was that there doesn't seem to

Re: [python-committers] DVCS and windows line endings.

2009-02-25 Thread Mark Hammond
> And it is even covered in the "minimal setup" section: > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/#hg I can't make the mercurial instructions work; I'm yet to investigate why though. But my wider point was that there doesn't seem to be a required level of functionality, or even a blanket statem

Re: [python-committers] DVCS and windows line endings.

2009-02-25 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le mercredi 25 février 2009 à 18:24 -0600, Benjamin Peterson a écrit : > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Mark Hammond > wrote: > > > > To the best of my knowledge, bzr's support for this is a few months away. I > > keep hearing rumours mercurial does support it and I'm just starting work on > >

Re: [python-committers] DVCS and windows line endings.

2009-02-25 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Mark Hammond wrote: > > To the best of my knowledge, bzr's support for this is a few months away.  I > keep hearing rumours mercurial does support it and I'm just starting work on > a mercurial based project, so I may be able to find some answers there - > does any

[python-committers] DVCS and windows line endings.

2009-02-25 Thread Mark Hammond
I'm not sure if this list or python-dev is appropriate for the more general dvcs discussions - apologies if I got it wrong. There is one issue I'm yet to see addressed - Windows line endings. When the svn tree is checked out on windows, all text files have \r\n line endings. While many dev tools