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Subject: Re: [boost] Releases and EOLS
From: Frank Mori Hess (fmhess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-02-14 15:33:49


On Saturday 14 February 2009 15:30, Rene Rivera wrote:
> > Couldn't you just let svn use the svn:eol-style to get the end-of-line
> > characters right on files that are specifically for unix (for example
> > the configure script mentioned in the bug report) in all packages? I
> > checked in svn, and the configure script does have its svn:eol-style
> > set properly to LF.
>
> That wouldn't solve the problem for environments/toolsets that can use
> the configure, Makefiles, etc. in CRLF form. In particular it would
> cause grief for MinGW and Cygwin/CRLF users (I'm one of those).

Oh, in that case should the svn:eol-style for the configure script, etc be
corrected to "native"?




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