[Python-Dev] *.dsp and *.dsw are treated by CVS as binary. Why?

[Trent Mick]

On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 11:13:45AM +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> guido wrote:
> > I think I made them binary during the period when I was mounting the
> > Unix source directory on a Windows machine.  I don't do that any more
> > and I don't know anyone who does
> 
> we do.
> 
> trent wrote:
> > > Does anybody see any problems treating them as text files?
> 
> developer studio 5.0 does:
> 
>     "This makefile was not generated by Developer Studio"
> 
>     "Continuing will create a new Developer Studio project to
>     wrap this makefile. You will be prompted to save after the
>     new project has been created".
> 
>     "Do you want to continue"
> 
>     (click yes)
> 
>     "The options file (.opt) for this workspace specified a project
>     configuration "... - Win32 Alpha Release" that no longer exists.
>     The configuration will be set to "... - Win32 Debug"
> 
>     (click OK)
> 
>     (click build)
> 
>     "MAKE : fatal error U1052: file '....mak' not found"
> 
> </F>

I admit that I have not tried a clean checkout and used DevStudio 5 (I will
try at home alter today). Howver, I *do* think that the problem here is that
you grabbed in the short iterim before patch:

http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-checkins/2000-August/007072.html


I hope I hope.
If it is broken for MSVC 5 when I tried in a little bit I will back out.

Trent

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Trent Mick
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