Sounds good to me. Aaron
P.S. The real solution is "don't use vi" :) On 12/1/05, John Sisson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently if you build a Geronimo distribution on Windows, and install > on a *NIX platform, files such XML and property files will contain > carriage returns. > > This is ugly if you are attempting to edit an XML plan using something > like the vi editor that displays the carriage returns as ^M. > > This also is a problem for the viewable files in the root directory of > the install, such as the README.txt file. > > We could fix this by using the fixcrlf task (in the same place I did for > GERONIMO-1232) and making the assumption that the zip distribution will > only be used on Windows and the tar.gz distributions only used on *NIX > platforms. This would allow people to use native editors on their > platform (e.g. vi or notepad on windows) without having any problems. > > Is this a reasonable assumption to make? Of course we could explicitly > state on the download page what the difference between the distributions > would be. > > John > > Here is an example of me trying to edit an XML file using vi on Solaris > (when built from Windows): > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>^M > <!--^M > ^M > Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation^M > ^M > Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");^M > you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.^M > You may obtain a copy of the License at^M > ^M > http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0^M > ^M > Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software^M > distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,^M > WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or > implied.^M > See the License for the specific language governing permissions and^M > limitations under the License.^M > -->^M > ^M > <!-- $Rev: 292333 $ $Date: 2005-09-29 08:09:15 +1000 (Thu, 29 Sep 2005) > $ -->^M > ^M > <!--^M > A security realm available to be used by sample applications.^M > ^M > >
