On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: > 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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