[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration: progress report (PEP 385)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Jul 3 22:38:32 CEST 2009


>> This is exactly why I was asking for your advice - I can't work out how to
>> work effectively with win32text as it stands myself, so remain stuck
>> accidently checking in files with inappropriate line endings and stuck
>> working out how to move pywin32's CVS repo with abandoning the very
>> primitive EOL safety it offers...
> 
> As long as the difference between \r\n- and \n-based files is clear
> and can be reasoned about, I don't see why having some of both (I'm
> assuming an overwhelming majority will have one, and only a few the
> other) is a big problem. But feel free to enlighten me!

If "both" means "both the server side test, and win32text", then Mark
already gave the answer: he cannot use win32test because he does not
know how to operate it (and doesn't bother studying its source code
to understand it in detail).

Regards,
Martin


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