On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:08:32PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: >On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, William A. Hoffman wrote: > >> Hold on, I forgot to change the setup.hint to UNIX style. >> I will update and let you know when it has the correct line feeds. >> Sorry... >> >> BTW, why is this required? We use the dos file formats for cvs checkouts >> because we use visual studio which does not like the UNIX style. > >I don't know if this is really a requirement. But recent post indicates >that it may impact on the generation of setup.ini: > >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-09/msg00209.html > >Anyway it seems to be a good practice to do so.
The CRLFs shouldn't be a "problem" really but there really is no reason for the extra characters. So, you're right, it's just not a good practice. cgf
