- an average developer never touches a makefile.
we have a few in a ~5000 files
and we one or two persons edit them,
and they are already legacy.
jakarta ant gets used wherever possible.
- problems with other tools:
source safe:
no.
cvs:
i can only tell that people did not complain.
--- Noel Yap <yap_noel@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- solo turn <soloturn99@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > our users did not care about line endings up to now,
> > and i don't
> > think we should introduce this now, in 2002, cause
> > of svn, by letting
> > users add a property cause there is one makefile in
> > our 5000 text
> > files.
> >
> > for me there seem two solutions:
> >
> > - we can set diff to ignore line
> > endings on text files.
> >
> > this seems to be the simplest solution
> > but you have to provide some exception
> > for make files ... cause the line-ending
> > matters (with svn:eol-style=lf eg?)
> >
> > - we can set svn:eol-style=native
> > as default for text files.
> > in rare cases (for makefiles e.g) we would
> > set it differently.
> >
> > which still leaves us with: what do i do
> > with a file i get from unix (samba eg.),
> > and i'm now working on win and my diff
> > complains ...
> >
> > so basically it boils down to:
> > i don't care what the server stores, as long the
> > client does not
> > bother about line-endings, no matter if i compare
> > files with unix-,
> > win-, or whatever line-endings.
>
> I don't understand. If line-ending format matters for
> makefiles, and developers are allowed to modify the
> makefiles, doesn't this imply that developers need to
> worry about line-ending format?
>
> Noel
>
> > and i think your winnt example is perferct for "its
> > not ridiculous,
> > cause no svn user cares, and no svn user will ever
> > notice it.". and
> > good software has the property: you don't notice it,
> > cause it does it
> > FOR you.
>
> This is a philosophical difference. There are certain
> things I'd prefer the tool to do automatically, and
> other things I don't. No software tool of mine should
> automatically mangle line endings (as many windows
> editors do) unless the tool itself is meant for that
> sole purpose (eg dos2unix and unix2dos).
>
> > we, btw, do have a mixed environment, and we try to
> > replace cvs,
> > microsoft vss, and some other strange unusable
> > proprietary tool.
>
> Have you had the same problem with the other tools?
> Noel
>
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