On 05/09/2009, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Terry Reedy <tjreedy <at> udel.edu> writes: >> >> If essentially all text files need fixed line endings on Windows, then >> hg really needs this built in. Has it really not been used much on >> Windows? > > Mercurial is used by e.g. Mozilla, which is not really known for poor > Windows > support (chances are many Firefox developers are Windows-based). I wonder > whether they have written their own extension, or if they simply rely on > their > text editors to do the right thing.
Actually, most Firefox developers are mac based. Mozilla isn't a great example of windows integration, they install half-a-unix-system in order to just build under windows, including msys, python 2.5, mercurial, and xemacs. See: <https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Windows_Build_Prerequisites> Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
