FYI: Emacs develelopment team considers bzr

[Jari Aalto]

* Thu 2008-03-06 Juanma Barranquero <lekktu at gmail.com>
* Message-Id: f7ccd24b0803060826y1cd323c6jf2255763a3972d5d at mail.gmail.com
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:38 AM, James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net> wrote:
>
>>  I also saw that they were worried about line endings as well, though
>>  I presume that everyone will be working in emacs, which I assume
>>  has sensible line ending support.
>
> Trust me: Emacs has "sensible line ending support", but many Windows
> tools (or ports) do not. I've had my share of problems with patch, for
> example. That said, I think many developers prefer no eol conversion,
> which means making sure the files are added with the right eol on the
> first place...

The EOL problem is immeadiate, when different OSs are used. Win <=>
Unix/Linux and Mac is rising, so "many developers prefer no eol
conversion ..." unfortunately will be starting to be on the margin.

Jari

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