On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:02, Mark Hammond<skippy.hammond@gmail.com> wrote:
In general I agree - although I think we can enforce a "social contract" which puts requirements on people who commit to the Python repository - and therefore we can consider the server-side hooks a "secondary" defense. IOW, the system (including the social aspects of the system) are setup such that the server-side hooks are very rarely called upon.
Agreed.
With all due respect, I suspect that is because you don't expect to see the issue regularly.
I suspect so, too!
I'm yet to work on a hg repository without mixed line endings. If I understand correctly, every such repository would have involved a developer checking in locally, than at some point in the future pushing these changes upstream. I really really don't want hg to tell me at this final step that I need to perform whitespace only fixes purely because I am running Windows.
I understand we are discussing how win32text can offer that - but I must object to your assertion that the situation I described isn't bad when you hit it.
I agree it is to be avoided, I'm just saying that I think it will be exceptional and therefore not a large burden, given other kinds of defenses we can put in place.
Actually, I think it is easy to make this problem much easier to understand; mandate every platform should use win32text, then start collating the issues people, including yourself, will no doubt face. I'm happy to get this ball rolling, but again, don't want this left purely in the domain of "it is a windows problem" - it isn't.
I'm not sure how win32text will provide anything other than performance degradation for non-Windows developers, but if there's functionality to be had, I'm happy to mandate its use on every platform. Cheers, Dirkjan