Jan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is with contributors.xml? > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&m=115142496218295&w=2 >
Good question and really the point of the email I sent yesterday. This is what I can determine CONTRIBUTORS needs to be binary because it contains non-ASCII character codes. The problem is that over its history it has been broken many times due to different people using different character encodings. AFAICT, the rationale for contributors.xml is that it allows for an ascii representation of the contributors list, with associated benefits. Whatever we end up with, there should be one definitive list. I see two possible courses of action 1. maintain CONTRIBUTORS as binary and remove contributors.xml. We need to agree and maintain a file encoding - currently UTF-8 2. maintain contributors.xml and remove CONTRIBUTORS. In builds, we could generate CONTRIBUTORS easily enough (or even an HTML representation) What do you all think? Conor --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
