On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 21:52 +0100, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 10:57 +0100, Guido Serassio wrote: > > This is very critical on the side of the DOS/Unix > > text format: Visual Studio doesn't work with Unix text files. > > Usually I commit the files on this directory only from Windows machines. > > Thats easy to deal with, in fact most likely not really an issue unless > you do a checkout from a different environment than you build..
> > Just discovered another reason to maintain a > > separate 3.0 STABLE NT branch: currently STABLE > > 3.0 doesn't work on Windows, so this the only > > STABLE based branch where to develop and test the needed changes. > > Not convinced this is a reason. If you need to make changes for Windows > then it's best if these changes is done in a way which fits all.. > > And having code, even if Windows specific, in the windows branch is a > very bad thing as it makes it a lot harder for the project to audit the > codebase. > ... I don't see the windows port so special in that regard. > We already have differences between many platforms. Sure, Windows is a > little more different, but not very much. I agree with Henrik. I know that maintaining a single code base for native Windows and Unix projects is a pain (been there), but it is becoming a lesser pain with modern VCSs and the alternative (permanently separate VCS branches) is worse. Alex.