On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 10:57 +0100, sebb wrote:
> On 3 September 2013 10:48, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 02:03 -0400, Karl Wright wrote:
> >> Hi Sebb,
> >>
> >> "It is essential that the files in a source release can be matched
> >> against those in SVN."
> >>
> >> I think that's technically not necessary according to Apache rules;  what's
> >> necessary is that the bits in the tar or zip be based *solely* on the svn
> >> tag and upstream dependencies.  But you really vote not on the tag but on
> >> the tar and zip.
> >>
> >> "But the main issue I have is that the PNG file in the ZIP archive is
> >> corrupt."
> >>
> >> I think that should be fixed.  It's also worth considering that perhaps
> >> fixing up line endings for Windows users is maybe not worth the pain in the
> >> behind at release time that it is.  Most people use editors these days that
> >> don't care.
> >>
> >> Karl
> >>
> >
> > Karl
> > Line delimiters of all human readable files as well as source code get
> > adjusted based on the type of the distribution. The whole thing boils
> > down to a just a few _resource_ files, which I personally think should
> > never be meddled with given that line delimiters may be semantically
> > significant.
> 
> If a fixed eol is required by resource files, they should not have
> eol-style:native in SVN.
> They should have either LF or CRLF depending on which eol is required
> by the format.
> 
> But if the format requires different EOL for Windows and Un*x, then
> native is correct and so is conversion to the appropriate ending.
> 
> I am not saying that every text file needs to be converted.
> But ones which are converted by SVN (i.e. native) should be converted
> for the corresponding archive.
> 

All which the assembly script has no way of knowing.

Oleg



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