RE: "decent" editors (was: line ending summary: the "Breg Hudther ton Proposal")

From: Alan Shutko [mailto:ats@acm.org]
>Billy Tanksley <btanksley@hifn.com> writes:

>Another (almost serious) suggestion: All text files are stored in the
>repository and checked out by the clients in CR/LF format. Unix and
>Mac users are far more used to dealing with this from Windows, and the
>tools at least come standard on Unix.

Grin.

The funny thing about this is that this would have messed me up even though
my old case was pure Windows, nothing else. Y'see, Tornado2 needs
Unix-style for its projects, even though it runs on Windows.

I'm not worried about this anymore -- as long as the repo doesn't try to do
anything by default, but does offer the option to do something, I think
we'll get along.

It may help to remember that svn will see two distinct types of use:

1. individual programmers using it as a kind of backup, usually on a single
platform
2. groups using it for cross-platform development

For case 1, we must have NO file modification. This is easily achieved any
number of ways. For case 2, we want most files normalized, and this is what
the debate's been about.

It seems clear to me that we want svn to work out of the box for case 1, and
be configurable for case 2 (since different groups will have different
policies).

Note that we'll want to support some odd cases, too:

3. An individual project switching to cross-platform/group development
4. An individual 'tag' inside a group project, so that I can 'backup' a
broken compile

>Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - In a variety of flavors!

-Billy

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