[Distutils] lineendings

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Andy Robinson wrote:
>>Why do you think you need support for line ends in distutils ?
>>For text data files, maybe ? (Python doesn't have a problem with
>>them for source code.)
> 
> 
> When you make a package on Windows and ship it to Unix it looks
> really ugly in VI  :-)  The converse is true when some sysadmin
> opens a Unix-built python file in Notepad. We just assumed that it 
> would 'do the right thing' for the platform and normalize stuff 
> somewhere.  
> 
> This is more of a gripe about making zip and tar.gz files than
> about anything else. If it's all 'unpacked' then who is to say 
> what's right? But if you are making a zip or EXE distro, surely 
> known text files or source files should be \r\n, and if a tar.gz 
> then just \n.

distutils uses Unix standard internally (e.g. for pathnames),
so the "standard line ending" would be \n only...

> I presume the answer is that distutils doesn't do this :-)

...nothing a few subclasses wouldn't be able to add, though.

Of course, the right solution would be getting a decent
text editor ;-)

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