Re: eol style differences

Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> writes:
> That could be a problem. So my next question applies: how often does
> it occur in real-life? How often does a developer use a brain-damaged
> editor in a mixed Unix/Windows C development environment?

I can only offer anecdotal evidence (though some of it is documented
in this list's archives): it happens all the time. On a project with
many developers/writers/authors/whatever, there will eventually be
someone who uses an insensitive editor in the wrong environment.

> Will they notice if we don't do it? Perhaps we just need to "educate"
> them?

I believe that strategy has been shown not to work.

We didn't do it, and people noticed. When Subversion didn't have EOL
conversion, people noticed and complained (that's the part about some
of the evidence being in this list's archives). Educating the person
who complains doesn't help -- they're often not the person who used
the clobbery editor, they're just the person who detected the problem
afterwards.

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Received on Wed Mar 12 21:57:24 2003