RE: [boost] Re: 1.31.0 release plans

From: Ferdinand Prantl (ferdinand.prantl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-29 04:10:37

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> From: Anthony Williams 
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> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 10:51
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> Subject: [boost] Re: 1.31.0 release plans
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> The .tar.bz2 distributions are smaller than the .zip, so even 
> though I work on Windows most of the time, I would rather 
> download the .tar.bz2 distribution. Most of the time the line 
> endings are irrelevant (most editors can cope with plain LF 
> rather than CRLF, even on Windows --- I think it's only 
> Notepad that has problems), but in a few specific cases (e.g. 
> the .dsp files) the line endings *are* relevant. Since these 
> files are no use at all on a UNIX system, it would make sense 
> to preserve the CRLF line endings in these files in all distributions.

Another possibility is to make the files more tasty for VC6 using some
"unix2dos -r *.dsp *.dsw" just after unpacking. There are no problems
with VC7 or other files. Most multiplatform sources are distributed this
way (tbz2 + zip) and I actually download the smaller tbz2s and do this
"clobbering". I am not aware of a source distribution that has only
dsp/dsw with CRLFs, thus I had to get used to unix2dosing anyway...

Ferda

> 
> Just my 2p.
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> Anthony
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