Brett Cannon wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 21:11, Mark Hammond
mailto:mhammond@skippinet.com.au> wrote: But my wider point was that there doesn't seem to be a required level of functionality, or even a blanket statement along the lines of "native eol support must offer as much functionality as svn". eg, what would, and would not, be considered a "deal-breaker" in this area? Anything? If windows users get screwed that's a deal breaker. I have not looked at the line endings section of the PEP yet, though, to know if they are at the moment.
That sounds like a "not worse than SVN" to me (which means allowing it to be set on a per-file basis, but also being able to set it up so that checked in text files were marked that way by default).
Cheers, Nick.