Traction on case insensitivity on windows.

Alexander Belchenko bialix at ukr.net
Tue Mar 25 08:11:28 GMT 2008


Stuart McGraw пишет:
> Alexander Belchenko wrote:
>> [...]
>> But looking at the situation around windows support closely one could
>> see that there seems to be only 2 developers working on windows support:
>> Mark Hammond and Alexander Belchenko.
>>
>> IIUC, Mark Hammond currently working on TortoiseBzr.
>>
>> Alexander Belchenko working on bzr in his own free time, and he has very 
>> small
>> amount of free time besides his regular job and his family. Currently he's
>> working on simple implementation of line-endings support. Because this 
>> problem
>> is one of 3 most wanted (other 2 is performance and nested tree support).
>> [...]
> 
> I am very interested in Windows line ending support 
> (asked about it here a couple months ago) but am test 
> driving Mercurial now because of its lack in bzr.  
> 
> There is a catch-22 problem here: many people who
> want/need eol conversion support and who would thus 
> be motivated to help with it, never get started with 
> bzr because of its lack.
> 
> I know the prevailing attitude is to wait and "do it 
> right".  But perhaps it would be better to provide, as 
> a short-term, interim measure, some sort of hook hack 
> that would mostly work, and document that using it may 
> cause problems.  Then people like me would be more 
> inclined to start using bzr and subsequently contribute 
> to the right solution.
> 
> Yes, there is a chance that the hack solution will
> become permanently entrenched, but against that is
> the likelihood that many potential bzr users will
> adopt other DVCS solutions in the long time, extended
> by the lack of those same users, before the "right 
> way" is implemented in bzr.

I came to similar conclusion. So I'm starting to code
simple implementation, not the right one.
The main blocker for eol-support is lacks of versioned
properties support. So I've implemented simple config-based
storage and it works fine. From this point I could start
working on eol support. I'm planning to publish my branch
shortly.



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