Re: [boost] Re: uBLAS formal review

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-08 20:11:04

At 06:44 PM 7/8/2002, David B. Held wrote:
 >"Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
 >news:4.3.2.7.2.20020708170209.01fee6e8_at_mailhost.esva.net...
 >> [...]
 >> Maybe ban files that mix CR-only line terminations with the other two.
 >>
 >> Anyone have any better ideas?
 >
 >Since, according to Chris Little, Mac users have no problems with
 >CR/LF or LF line endings, it doesn't seem too unreasonable to ban
 >CR line endings.  Would it make sense to have a script that converts
 >all files to CR/LF or LF only, and run it right before assembling the
 >release distribution?  The script could just scan files, and when it
 >read a CR without a following LF, it could add it.  LF only files don't
 >seem to be a problem.

We already force NL for .gz distributions, and could start to force CR/NL 
for .zip distributions.

But that doesn't do anything for those who checkout files directly from 
CVS.  At least with the CVS client (WinCVS) I use, there is a switch to 
force NL, but apparently no switch to force CR/NL.

--Beman