Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 17:52, Michael Foord <mfo...@python.org> wrote: >> What is the risk of going ahead with a broken system? >> >> The crux of the matter is that building Python for Windows could break if >> someone accidentally commits the wrong line-endings for a few specific files >> (Visual Studio project and configuration files - do I understand >> correctly?). If this happens, how hard a job would it be to find and fix the >> problem? > > That wouldn't happen, because we'd have pre-push hooks in place that > prevent changesets changing something for the worse from going into > the central repository. That places a certain burden on people who run > into these issues to fix up their changesets, though. The argument > was, I think, that it's not reasonable for Windows developers to have > to spend time on fixing up their own changesets when other developers > don't have to do so. > >> The risk *seems* reasonably low, people on non-Windows platforms are >> unlikely to touch those files and they are unlikely to be edited by hand, >> and if the cost of fixing the problem is low it seems reasonable to migrate >> earlier rather than later. > > IMO the risk is negligible, due to the aformentioned precautions. > >> Would it help for the PSF to pay someone to do the necessary testing + >> coding to ensure the problem is fixed and is there a likely person we could >> contract? > > Matt Mackall, the founder of Mercurial, might be available. Martin > Geisler is the person who did most of the work on the eol extension so > far, including getting a Windows laptop from his university to try > some things, but I'm not sure he's available either. I could ask > around, though, if the PSF thinks spending money on this is > worthwhile. > The PSF would look to the developer community for advice on this issue, but if it's holding the DVCS switch up I can't think of many objections to spending a modest sum to remove the issue.
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