On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 22:22, Brett Porter wrote: > I don't believe in this assumption, as I have in the past (although > reluctantly) used .zip on Unix, and I just about always use .tar.gz on > Windows via cygwin.
Together with the fact that line endings of the cvs checkout on a local machine are OS dependent, it means that line endings in distribution files depend upon the OS of the developer who builds the distribution files. IMHO this is worse than the mixed usage of one using .zip on Unix and .tgz on W32, and there's still Jasons argument that one can use "unzip -a filename"... Imaging today a W32 developer published the dist and tomorrow a Unix developer publishes a newer dist with different line endings - confusing for a users who uses the source-dist, isn't it? So I am +1 on the patch, but I am not a committer, possibly my opinion does not could... cu -- Martin Skopp Riege Software International GmbH Support: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Information: http://www.riege.com This email is intended to be viewed with a nonproportional font. Public Key on http://www.keyserver.net, Key-ID: 3D4027B5 Fingerprint: 1970 C78D 9A1D 99FA 5CE4 5C0D 29E6 6A95 3D40 27B5 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
