Re: Bug in creating tar.gz files?

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:36:24PM +0100, Branko ??ibej wrote:
> I wonder if we really need that. On Windows, the commonly used
> programming editors (UltraEdit, SlickEdit, Visual Studio, Emacs,
> YouNameIt) all handle files with unix EOL correctly, and our .dsp
> generator makes sure the line endings in the project files are correct.
> I always build release binaries from the unixish release tarball. We
> don't _have_ to create another (identical) package which differs only in
> line endings, and it's a nuisance.
>
> APR needs this because they keep the .dsp's in the tree and refuse to
> disable newline conversion in CVS; so does httpd. We don't.

I think the rationale is people expect it to be in CRLF if we're
providing a zip file. Since, I spent the time to implement the option
to export, I don't really see a reason not to do it.

Doing the .zip file is handy anyway for the Windows people since WinZip
doesn't like our tarballs.

-- 
Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken
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